The Derby Historical Museum is proud to be the home to the largest Arrowhead exhibit in this region, with over 1,000 arrowheads on display.

Acanthoceras ammonite is an extinct cephalopod that lived in the Late Cretaceous period approximately 65-145 million years ago. This is just one of the many fossils that can be found at the Museum.

On March 7, 1869, Alexander Garrett stopped his covered wagon slightly southeast of the original Derby school building. This land was described to Garrett as the "garden spot of Kansas".