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Group of kids having snowball fight

Clearing snow from railroad track near Sylvan Grove. Written on photo, "Clearing track, Shoveling Snow from the Yards, Sylvan Grove Kan. Feb. 29 1912."

Main Road looking west of Stockton, Ks -- June 18, 1908. The Solomon River was a mile wide at flood stage.

Everett Somers, LaRue Gordon. Bob McEnulty, George Laughlin outside Tonganoxie Grade School

Newsletter detailing progress on a regional library system demonstration project intended to show residents of southeast Kansas how a system would operate.

Located about 8 miles north of Sylvan Grove, the Spillman Creek Double Arch Bridge and Park area offers a peaceful respite for visitors. The Bridge was placed on the Register of Historic Kansas Places by the Kansas Historical Society on August 21,…

On March 9, 1869 a joint resolution of Congress authorized the changing of the Union Pacific Railway Company, Eastern Division's name to the Kansas Pacific Railway Company.; Although all of the photographs published in Across the Continent on the…

Hoge station was a stop on the Lawrence-Leavenworth branch of the Union Pacific railroad. It was situated on the southeast corner of what is now 179th and Hollingsworth road. Holy angel Catholic Church, and later St. Patrick's Catholic Church, was…

The corner stone of the St. Stanislaus Catholic Church was laid by Bishop Fink on June 18, 1899. The dedication of the completed church took place on October 29, 1899.