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Men in photo: Jack Carter, Tom Boyd, Ralph Davis, Frank O'Neill, Hugh O'Neill, Steve Pemberton and child Delbert Carter

Barn, rectangle with three cross aisles, timber frame with vertical board and batten sheathing, rubble stone foundation, gable roof with metal roofing. Gable end windows and louvered loft vents. Dutch doors S, central door N, interior stalls and…

Before new house was built - showing barns.

detached residence, T-plan with two recessed entrances in ell, two stories, two front bays, wood frame and weatherboard construction, stone foundation (parged), hipped roof, low hipped front porch on turned posts, 2/2 double-hung wooden windows,…

Pictured are Archie Cless, Carl Parr, and Irene Howard in possibly the first automobile seen in Rossville, Kansas. From the March 14, 1902, issue of the Rossville News, Mr. U. G. Stewart wrote, "Mr. George Burghart of the Burghart Cigar Company of…

C.C. McPherson opened the McPherson Livery barn in October of 1879. In 1883, he kept three buggies, two spring wagons and nine head of horses. He expanded his business to house more in the early 1900s and had a “carry-all” which was particularly…

Buzick Ranch, one mile south of Sylvan Grove, KS. "This field of barley is irrigated with water pumped from Saline River. Silo in background is filled with Atlas Sorghum produced under irrigation on this field. After this barley crop is harvested,…

The settlement on Cross Creek was in a very strategic position on the Military Road from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Riley. Travel up the Kaw could not be depended upon and man and supplies had to be hauled to Fort Riley overland. The ford and the…

Gutted buildings were all that were left after the 1925 fire that destroyed several businesses. Lutheran school teacher H.F. Rengstorf was assessing the damage at Buehring Barber Shop when a wall collapsed on top of him. He later died of his…

Large barn, cattle and turkeys on the Bushby Farm, northwest of Belleville, Kansas, 1940.