Connecting the Chase County Community

from the Historic Chase County Courthouse to the

A trail to connect two communities - what a novel idea! This good idea to connect Cottonwood Falls and Strong City was first suggested in 1904. Of course it was to be a ...

The Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta

Founded May 1, 1848 at Jefferson College by Daniel Webster Crofts

James Elliott

Naaman Fletcher

Ellis Bailey Gregg

John Templeton McCarty

Samuel Beatty Wilson

Fortiter

Fideliter

Feliciter

Marker is on South College Street (U.S. 19) south of East Beau Street (Pennsylvania Route 136), on the left when ...

Route of the Hiawatha- Man’s Mark on the Land

If you stood on this spot with a railroad surveyor in 1906, you would have gazed across a lush patchwork forest of large trees. The super hot 1910 fires burned the valley below and for years afterward the area presented ...

They Did Not Come Home

They Did Not Come Home

These are the graves of Waterbury soldiers and sailors who died in The Great War for Democracy 1917 – 1919 and who remain forever interred where they fell. Let those who come after them see to ...

Bloody Monday and the American (Know-Nothing) Party

Election day, Aug. 6, 1855, known as Bloody Monday due to riots led by "Know-Nothing" mobs. This political party was anti-Catholic and nativist. Attacks on German immigrants east of downtown and Irish in the west caused at least 22 deaths, ...

Boothe Homestead

This 1820’s home was built over the original foundation of the 1683 house and has been altered four times since then. David and Stephen Boothe’s renovations of 1913 added stained glass windows, four safes in the walls, and several “puzzle” ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- Rough & Tumble Camps

Primitive construction camps dotted the Bitterroot Mountains between 1906 and 1912.

Hardy colorful gangs of workers from around the globe called these bleak and often ugly temporary settlements home.

The hard work and disagreeable conditions on the Milwaukee’s Western Extension ...

Boothe Homestead

Listed on the

National Register of Historic Places

By the United States

Department of the Interior

May 1, 1985

This Estate Owned by the Boothe Family

For Many Generations Was Willed

To the Town of Stratford by

David ...

The Gault Homestead

Included as part of a 320-acre land grant awarded to J.P. Whelin in payment for his service to the Republic of Texas Army, this property has had a long and varied history. Soon after he was granted the land, Whelin ...

The Vore Buffalo Jump

Hunting Large Bison Took Teamwork and Ingenuity

Located a short distance to the east and camouflaged by the red eroded landscape is the Vore Buffalo Jump. This sinkhole served early residents as a slaughterhouse. using the natural pit as a trap, ...