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The Opera House Pharmacy was owned and operated by G.P. Pierce. The first telephone switchboard was located there. Telephone service to the public did not get started in Rossville until August 1900, when Manager McMahan of the Alma Telephone Co.…

Steven Martinek is doing the painting on this one-room #101 school house in Rossville, Kansas. The flag shows only 48 stars.

Author Luis Carlos Montalvan and his Support Dog Tuesday meet with the Louisburg Community to discuss his book Until Tuesday, as part of One Book One Burg.

The Oliver Nursery was operated by brothers Tom and Charles Oliver. The Oliver nursery grew seedlings for root stock used for grafting and budding of different fruit varieties. They also raised general farm crops and livestock. They processed the…

Employees of the Oliver Nursery are pictured left to right, back row: Frank Goodrich, Walter Patton, and John Short; middle row: Chris Lillard, Rufus Lillard, Andy Chapman, and Truman Paine; front row: Henry Martin, Ed Bixby, John Martin, and William…

Detached residence, rectangle with central entrance and gable bays, two stories, wood frame construction, coursed rough-cut stone foundation, main hipped roof. Hipped front porch on columns, open railings, ell plan, 1/1 double-hung wooden windows,…

OLIVE BRANCH CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS
Olive Branch Cemetery, one of three public cemeteries in Rossville township, is located in the NW ¼ of Sec. 9 T10S R13E, at the corner of N.W. 86th and Bailey Rd. It was started in connection with the Olive Branch…

Detached commercial building, rectangle with central entrance, two stories, three front and side bays, brick front and wood frame side walls, low gable roof, 6/1 double-hung windows, recessed paneled wooden entrance door with sidelight. Modern shake…

Greetings - Old Stone House
Built by U.S.A. for Indian Agency - 1826-1827.
Oldest house in Kansas on record. Owned and occupied by A.E. Moore, Silver Lake, Kansas.

Autographed by A.E. Moore.

Backside: handwritten says "bought in 1940"

Not sure which bridge this is or where it is. May be old bridge over Cross Creek, Rossville, Kansas.