Talks of the need for a new schoolhouse were mustering in early 1900. County Superintendent M. Lavinia Sterrett announced an auction on October 10, 1903 to sell the District 57 schoolhouse. Half of...
Talks of the need for a new schoolhouse were mustering in early 1900. County Superintendent M. Lavinia Sterrett announced an auction on October 10, 1903 to sell the District 57 schoolhouse. Half of...
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...
The small jail cell that now sits outside of Anderson County Historical Society is from the small town of Westphalia Kansas. This single cell is typical of the time period with a built-in bunk and...
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...
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...
On May 26th, 1949 the citizens of Walnut were invited to the grand opening of the brand new St. Patricks Auditorium. An all-day bazaar was advertised in the local newspaper with dinner at 12 pm...
Libert School was constructed in 1929 as a one-story brick school that was rather long including the gymnasium inside. The school still has the old wooden merry-go-round, monkey bars and swings out...
The beautiful brick building that you see today sitting in the small town of Preston covered in vines and hidden by towering trees was constructed in 1921 as the Preston School. It didn’t...
Prior to this building being constructed another one existed “on the old Fair Ground Road”. In January 1909 a boy discovered the Guinn School house in flames with the cause of origin...
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...
Grand Valley School Driving down a dirt or gravel road, a wheat field on one side, cornfield on the other and prairie grass for miles ahead. Inevitably if you drive long enough you’re bound to...
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...
The brand new Crestline School of District 28 was officially dedicated on October 14, 1921. The cornerstone was laid months before by the Board consisting of C.W. Edmonds, J.G. Milner, and R.H...
The jail that now sits at the Albany Historical Society site is that of the old Sabetha Jail. Saved from being lost forever it now sits on a complex of other saved historic buildings for the public...
Built around 1912 the first time Utica Jail shows up in newspapers was December 28, 1912 in the Ness County Newspaper with the following: Frank McKinney of Gove County who broke out of the Utica jail...
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