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This photograph of the Rossville, Kansas, high school was taken between 1936-1979. The high school was built as part of a WPA Project.

In 1885, this two-story red brick building was built to serve as the high school in Rossville, Kansas. There were two rooms upstairs and two rooms downstairs and four teachers always at work.

Photographs of the Rossville High School on East Pottawatomie Street around 1913-1936.

A photograph of the Rossville grade school on the left, and the Rossville high school on the right, at East Pottawatomie Street in 1913. The grade school consisted of four rooms.

This is what Joe Campbell's farm looked like before the May 19, 1960, tornado destroyed it at 6:01 p.m. Refer to RCL0056 to see what it looked like after the tornado.

Dr. Robert S. Gabbey was born May 4, 1833, in Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania, and married Annie Welton in 1854. He was appointed the Rossville, Kansas, government physician in 1861 and was the first justice of the peace appointed in 1867. He applied…

This portrait of a woman has a photographer's studio stamp in the bottom right corner that has been damaged. It is from the collection of Mabel Boyles, who was from Rossville, Kansas.

Members of this Rossville, Kansas, summer baseball team are (front row, left to right) Harry Adams, Melvin Sage, Steven Pardee, Bobby Dolezilek, Bob Wehner, Daryl Mitchell, and Carl Farley; (back row left to right) Coach Joe Campbell, Richard…

Pictured left to right at an American Legion Auxiliary banquet is Thresa Trahoon, Fern Rogers, Ruby Rezac, Ruth Hesse, Velda O'Donnell, Nora Mitchell, Mary Decker, Hope Meade, Amy Meade, Jenny Coleman, Roxie Banta, Anna Lemon, and Melba Gentry.

The Rossville American Legion Jimmie Lillard Unit 31 color guard and firing squad give their respects to fallen veterans on Memorial Day of May 1961.