Built by Moses R. Grinter in 1857 on the then Delaware Indian Reserve, the Grinter House stood near the point where he had begun operating the first ferry on the Kansas River in 1831. For many years after its survey in 1837, the Fort Leavenworth-Fort Gibson Military Road crossed the river here. Moses Grinter is believed to have been the first permanent white settler in what became Wyandotte County and one of the earliest in all of Kansas. The house is listed by the Historic American Buildings Survey and the National Register of Historic Places and is administered as a museum by the Kansas State Historical Society.
