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Harvest Time - 50 trucks filled with wheat line up on Cedar Street to unload at the local elevator. This picture was taken July 1, 1958 but it could have been taken many different years at harvest time.

Fuller Music Co. - Lorenzo Sr. and Effie Fuller in their Fuller Music Co. car. In 1913 Lorenzo Fuller, a traveling musician, stopped in Stockton, KS seeking lodging in the home of Capt. Green, also a talented musical family who toured with him. He…

County Farm - Originally the Commercial House Hotel, the building was cut in half with one part being moved southwest of Stockton. It became the Rooks County Farm, a residence for the indigent, at a time when housing was furnished for them. The…

Stockton Grade School - The Stockton Grade School was built in 1941 of native limestone and concrete. This WPA project was designed by H.E. Wheelock. This building is still (2008) used as the elementary school.

Stockton High School - The Stockton High School building was completed in 1923, replacing the old Academy as the district high school. When the new high school was built just south of this building in 1955, it became the middle school. It served as…

Main Street Christian Church on the corner of Main and Elm. Notice the poles painted with white. This marked the route of the White Way. Auto tourists were encouraged to travel this route in order to build up the towns along the way.

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…

Stockton's Midwest Motel is shown buried under snow. This picture was taken on March 27, 1958.

The 1956 Ford Mainline Raffle car and Kansas Forestry Fish and Game Trailer at the Rooks County Fair, August 1956. Following the barbeque and Webster Lake Dedication Ceremony, a dance was held in Stockton. The final item for the day was the raffle…

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