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The "Old Castle" - The Good Castle was built in 1880 of native limestone on a hilltop northwest of town. Enos Good built the home to resemble an old country mansion for his bride, Eliza Boggs Good. Both Mr. and Mrs. Good were natives of England and…

Southeast of Rossville, Kansas, (between Rossville and Silver Lake) stood the town of Kingsville which Andrew Wilson built and erected at his own expense: a depot (pictured), hotel, store, blacksmith shop, cattle yard, scales, and a stone school…

Doris and Mareta Sanford with windmill on farm, rural Belleville, 1928.

Mareta Sanford visiting her grandparents, playing on the porch of their farm home, rural Belleville, circa 1923-1924.

Left to right: Orval Gilbert, Farlow Mendenhall, Forrest Burkholder, Lael Gilbert

Gib and Reba Price farm 1 ½ miles north of Rydal, Kansas

Gertrude Powell Miller photographed on September 28, 1934

Courtyard farmstead plan. House: square block with central entrance, two stories, truncated hipped roof, rear ell rectangle with gable roof, wood frame and weatherboard, smooth-cut sandstone foundation. Ornamental gable entry and hipped ell porch…

Detached residence, rectangle with central entrance and shed rear entrance SW, Three front bays, two stories, wood frame and weatherboard with shingles covering gable ends, concrete foundation, side gable roof. Integral shed front porch on two…

Detached residence, cruciform plan with side entrance, one-and-a-half-story, wood frame and weatherboard, coursed rough-cut stone foundations, gable roof. Rear shed porch, 1/1 and 4/1 double hung wooden windows, front bay window NW, glazed wooden…