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Mr. and Mrs. U.G. and Lillian Stewart are pictured inside the Rossville, Kansas, Post Office, where Mr. U.G. Stewart was postmaster from 1908-1911. The location of the Post Office at that time is unknown.

Aerial shot of Sylvan Grove taken from grain elevator.

This picture of the east side of Main Street in Rossville, Kansas, is looking south. It is featured in the 1971 Rossville Centennial book. The business on the far left is Hopkins & Son hardware store.

Detached residence, irregular plan with side entrance and rear ell entrance, one-and-a-half stories, three front and side bays, coursed smooth-cut tooled sandstone block construction, mansard roof with gable dormers. Hipped porch with round corner…

Detached residence, rectangle with side entrance and projecting center bay N, one story with basement, brick masonry in running bond, ashlar stone foundation, gable roof. Ell porchon brick piers with vent window, 3/1 double-hung wooden windows,…

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…

Edgar G. Griswold was born in Santa Rosa, California, on May 23, 1870. He moved to Rossville in 1902. He was a teacher and farmer as well as served as the Rossville, Kansas, mayor for six years. He died June 27, 1963, in Rossville.

Edward and Eugenia Jacobson celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary in front of original farmstead, 1 1/2 miles south and 1 1/2 miles east of Norway, Kansas, circa 1880-1890.

Barn and corn crib on Edward Jacobson farm.

The electric power plant, built in 1887, made Stockton one of the first towns in western Kansas and one of the smallest towns in the nation to have electricity. It began as a private business and then sold to the city in 1889. The building was made…