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Meade Explorations
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Dalton Gang HideoutAddress:
502 S. Pearlette
Email Address: daltonhideout@yahoo.com About this Exploration:  Meade's major tourist attraction, the Dalton Gang Hideout, was formally the home of Eva Dalton Whipple, sister to the infamous Dalton Gang. Eva Dalton came to Meade in the mid 1880's, and was married to J.N. Whipple, a Meade merchant, in 1887. Whipple built the house which still stands at the corner of Pearlette and Green Streets in Meade for his bride. Years after the couple left Meade a deep rain wash covered with timbers and earth was discovered; a tunnel from the house to the barn built into the hillside below.
 Legend has it the tunnel was used by the gang to come and go undetected by the law. In 1940 the Meade Chamber of Commerce purchased the old Whipple property and the Dalton Gang Hideout became one of the first tourist attractions in
Since that time hundreds of thousands visitors have taken the eerie trip down the 95-foot-long tunnel to explore Eva Dalton's house which is furnished as it would have been in her day.
The barn serves as an entrance to the attraction and houses a gift shop on the ground floor and museum artifacts in the loft. Handicapped accessible restrooms as well as a shady park are available on the grounds.
 Open Monday-Saturday 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday 1-5 p.m.
Admission $4.
Find This Exploration! Get Directions |
 Meade County Historical Museum
200 E Carthage
Meade, KS 67864 Phone: 620.873.2359 Dalton Gang Hideout
502 S Pearlette
Meade, KS 67964 Phone: 800.354.2743
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