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Tourism and Lodging

AREA ATTRACTIONS

Kaufman Poor Farm Project

The Poor Farm was created in November of 1883 in order to provide impoverished residents with a work program, along with food, shelter and medical attention. The farm operated until the 1970s and today, the Poor Farm and what is left of the original buildings are leased by the Kaufman County Historical Commission. Current plans call for transforming the farm into a museum featuring walking tours and living history demonstrations.

Museum of Nature & Science

A merging of the Dallas Museum of Natural History, The Science Place and the Dallas Children’s Museum in 2006 led to the creation of the Museum of Nature & Science.

The museum is composed of the Nature Building, featuring more than 200,000 items reflecting 1.7 billion years of Earth’s history; the Science Building, housing more than 200 permanent, hands-on exhibits and a number of special exhibitions, galleries, an auditorium and the TI Founders IMAX Theatre; and the Planetarium, offering a long list of programs relating to astronomy and space exploration.

The Sixth Floor Museum

Housed on the sixth and seventh floors of the formerly known Texas School Book Depository, the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza offers information regarding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. More than six million visitors from across the world have browsed through the museum’s collection of documentary, photographic and artifactual records regarding the assassination on November 22, 1963.

Frontiers of Flight Museum

Patrons are welcome to learn about the area’s rich aviation history through a number of interesting displays of historic artifacts, documents and photographs highlighting the earliest years of aviation through the aircraft of today.

Kaufman County Veterans Memorial Park

The Kaufman County Veterans Memorial Park was dedicated by the Kaufman County Veterans on November 15, 2005 in order to honor the area’s courageous veterans from all wars and conflicts dating back to the Spanish-American War. The park, constructed in a star shape, incorporates nine granite monuments engraved with the names of more than 4,900 Kaufman County veterans.

LODGING

Kaufman welcomes its visitors to take advantage of the comfortable accommodations offered through three locally established hotels, all within minutes of restaurants, shopping, recreation and area attractions.

The Best Western La Hacienda Inn offers 40 guestrooms, along with an on-site pool, business center and meeting/banquet space up to 20. Complementary breakfast and high-speed Internet access are also top amenities found here. Countryside Inn is another option located within Kaufman.

Neighboring Terrell offers a number of additional hotels and motels, notably the Holiday Inn Express Hotel and Suites. Sixty-eight guest rooms and 15 suites are accompanied by a Health & Fitness Center, an indoor heated pool and whirlpool spa and ample business services and meeting space.