The 1859 Jail Museum will be closed for Indigenous Peoples Day.

The Jackson County Historical Society recognizes all the land comprising Jackson County was once Osage Nation land. Le Soldat du Chene, Second Chief of the Osage nation was one of the principal chiefs who witnessed the signing of the treaty at Fort Osage on November 10, 1808.

Learn more about the Osage Tribe that once inhabited the lands now called Jackson County at www.jchs.org/osage-tribe