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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

George W Mitchler - a Pioneer merchant of Paola Kansas came to Paola in 1859 established a general store and carried on the business for a number of years. In 1878 he admitted his four sons into the business. Died Dec. 1893

George Tomlinson married to Mary Mead in the Spring of 1856 being the first marriage in Paola Kans

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…