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People in Rossville, Kansas, at the south end of Main Street after the 1903 flood use horses, buggies, or boats to move about town.

Building sidewalks in Rossville, Kansas, are (left to right) Howard Marney, J.P. Marney, Wes Harder, and Roy Fisher.

People in Rossville, Kansas, saw hard times in 1928. There were more than 1,000 bushels of corn on the ground. Sold it for $0.12 a bushel to pay taxes. Sold hogs for $3.50 per hundred. The man in the picture is unidentified.

U.G. Stewart is pictured in his band uniform holding his trombone. He organized a band that played concerts in the bandstand on Saturday nights during the summer months and at other functions when called upon. The bandstand was on the east side of…

She was from Columbus, Ohio, before moving to Rossville, Kansas. She married Robert S. Gabbey in 1854.

Mrs. Emma Ellis was elected Rossville, Kansas, treasurer in 1889 on an all-woman ticket.

Mr. O. Leroy Sedgwick established the Pottawatomi Land Office in St. Marys in 1870, and four years later began publishing a newspaper. In August, 1878, he moved his land office to Rossville, where pasture land sold for $1.75 an acre and good crop…

Dr. Henry B. Miller was born in Rossville, Kansas, in January 1, 1881. He received his degree as Doctor of Medicine in 1908 from the University of Pennsylvania and after a year of interning in Philadelphia he returned to Rossville and worked with his…

Dr. Henry B. Miller with Shelley McClain on his lap at his doctor's office in Rossville, Kansas. See RCL0052 for more information about Dr. Henry B. Miller.

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. Pictured left to right are Joe DeGraff, Charles Bixby, Mr. Roberts, Ben Mileham,…