Presidents Message
Spring 2026 is a busy and exciting time for the Overland Park Historical Society. Led by Vicki Lilly, our Strategic Development Advisor, members of your Board have been meeting regularly with “A” list business institutions in and around Overland Park. We are acquainting these business executives with the mission and vision of our Society. These meetings are in support of our ongoing effort to raise the funds necessary to allow your Society to operate, grow our membership and achieve our programming goals.
In addition, we continue to interact with the City of Overland Park. We do so as a repository of City history, but also for discussions about completion of the Plaza that is projected to be finished next to the Depot in the future. We believe these meetings have been positive for both the City’s and OPHS’s goals for Downtown OP.
I want to personally thank each of you as members for your continued support of the OPHS. Organizations like ours depend for survival on the generosity of its Members, Supporters, Donors and Grantors.
Your Board is devoting virtually all its time in 2026 to developing the financial base necessary to support our long-term operational goals. Our success in this will be a further encouragement to our Donors and Grantors! We are working hard so that when we get to the end of the year, we have that goal accomplished. To make that happen we need your continuing support and the support of Donors, Grantors and the City of Overland Park. Thanks so much for being there for us.
Preserving our history past, present and future; taking our history into school classrooms and the community at large; telling our story to new and long-time residents. It’s our mission. Join us!
Rod Richardson
President
Overland Park Historical Society
Spring 2026 is a busy and exciting time for the Overland Park Historical Society. Led by Vicki Lilly, our Strategic Development Advisor, members of your Board have been meeting regularly with “A” list business institutions in and around Overland Park. We are acquainting these business executives with the mission and vision of our Society. These meetings are in support of our ongoing effort to raise the funds necessary to allow your Society to operate, grow our membership and achieve our programming goals.
In addition, we continue to interact with the City of Overland Park. We do so as a repository of City history, but also for discussions about completion of the Plaza that is projected to be finished next to the Depot in the future. We believe these meetings have been positive for both the City’s and OPHS’s goals for Downtown OP.
I want to personally thank each of you as members for your continued support of the OPHS. Organizations like ours depend for survival on the generosity of its Members, Supporters, Donors and Grantors.
Your Board is devoting virtually all its time in 2026 to developing the financial base necessary to support our long-term operational goals. Our success in this will be a further encouragement to our Donors and Grantors! We are working hard so that when we get to the end of the year, we have that goal accomplished. To make that happen we need your continuing support and the support of Donors, Grantors and the City of Overland Park. Thanks so much for being there for us.
Preserving our history past, present and future; taking our history into school classrooms and the community at large; telling our story to new and long-time residents. It’s our mission. Join us!
Rod Richardson
President
Overland Park Historical Society