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Ella, Earl, and Dr. Henry B. Miller, Rossville, Kansas

Aileen Patton is standing in front of Walter Patton's barn across from the Oliver Nursery shed in Rossville, Kansas.

This walking bridge on West Pottawatomie Street flooded October 11, 1961.

This is the backyard of Joe Parr during the October 11, 1961, flood.

Rossville, Kansas, flooded October 11, 1961. This is north Main Street looking north.

The water level rose on October 11, 1961, as pictured. This train-track bridge is in Rossville, Kansas.

The corner stone of the St. Stanislaus Catholic Church was laid by Bishop Fink on June 18, 1899. The dedication of the completed church took place on October 29, 1899.

C.C. McPherson opened the McPherson Livery barn in October of 1879. In 1883, he kept three buggies, two spring wagons and nine head of horses. He expanded his business to house more in the early 1900s and had a “carry-all” which was particularly…

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.

Bill Murray and his wife, Betty, purchased the Rossville Reporter in March of 1953, after the Navarres retired. The name was changed to The Shawnee County Reporter. The Murrays sold the paper in 1967 to the Pictorial Times, a Topeka paper. This…