Indian Pay Station and Museum
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111 E Mission St. Marys, KS Map This! |
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| 785-437-6600 |
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| ritm@oct.net | |
St. Marys was one of the last locations of Jesuit service to North American tribes, which began in the 1600's in Quebec and Montreal. St. Marys Mission was the Pottawatomie Tribal headquarters and service center until the tribal lands were greatly reduced in about 1867. The Old Pay Station, an original building that served to distribute annual annuity payments and conduct other business on behalf of the tribe in the early days of St. Marys, still stands and is part of the St. Marys museum complex. The Indian Pay Station and Museum features the original old Pottawatomie Tribal Pay Station and an adjoining museum building filled with historic artifacts from the later settlement of the St. Marys area.