Zarah Hotel 1925-1972 Referred to as Hotel Zarah or Zarah Hotel, this historic building is getting a new lease on life with a restoration underway. One that has been over a decade in the making. The...
Zarah Hotel 1925-1972 Referred to as Hotel Zarah or Zarah Hotel, this historic building is getting a new lease on life with a restoration underway. One that has been over a decade in the making. The...
In 1903, the Kansas Legislature authorized the Cottonwood Falls School District to issue $8,000 in bonds to build a new grade school. However, when project estimates came in at $10,000, the community...
Marion County Poor Farm 1888-1950 The beginning stages of the inception of Marion County Poor Farm date back to 1887. After discussing and assessing the need, $10,000 was allotted for the purchasing...
Centennial School District No. 85 ‘s name was derived from the fact that the first day of school held here was on the hundredth year anniversary of the meeting of the United States...
Article by Geary County Historical Society District 30 School or Antelope School is located in southern Geary County in a stand of evergreen trees that act as a windbreak for the little limestone...
A town having a bank is a significant milestone to meet, it shows growth, people establishing the town as a lifelong home, money flowing through it, and more. So when a group of men got together...
Cedar Vale Manor In the small town of Cedar Vale Kansas lies a few buildings on our website, one of those being the Cedar Vale Jail and another being this location, the Cedar Vale Manor / Cedar Vale...
According to local historian Charlie Keller he was alive when the jail was built between 1924-1926. The story behind why the jail was built offers a new explanation to why many of these small towns...
Sitting in the backyard of Mr. Palmer’s home is a single cell jail. “It came with the house when I bought three years ago. The home used to belong to the town banker.” How it ended...
This abandoned homestead located seemingly out in the middle of nowhere depicts a stone engraved above a window, ‘Doctor W.B. Jones 1878’. The Doctor W.B. Jones Home belonged to William...
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The Big John School also known as Lower Big John School (there was also an Upper Big John) is one of the greatest examples I have ever seen of existing small schoolhouses in the Midwest. Located in...
Much isn’t known about the Dorrance Drug Store, from what we could find it was built prior to 1908. The store can be seen in the picture above next to the Dorrance Post Office which accompanied...
The small town of Bavaria sounds like something you would run across in Germany rather than Kansas. That’s because its name originates from Germany. Once a bustling town it boasted a brand new...
The Frederick Jail is an amazingly preserved example of a single-cell jail from the early 1900s. These small jails were typically made of concrete, built to last decades and deter the most...
During the school election of April 1911, a new school building was discussed and decided this is a need that needed to be addressed soon. The nearby towns of Sylvia, Turon and Pretty Prairie had all...
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