Midland Railway

Kansas First

Excursion Railroad

Baldwin KS

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (U.S. 166) and Douglas Street, on the left when traveling west on Main Street.

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Asahel Gridley's Bank

"My line of defense is going to be that your tongue is no slanderer...that the people generally know you to be, impulsive and say things that you do not mean, and they do not consider what you say as slander," ...

Mattamuskeet Nat'l Wildlife Refuge

The refuge, observation tower, and hunting lodge were rehabilitated by Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees, 1934-42.

Marker is at the intersection of U.S. 264 and Outfall Canal Road, on the right when traveling east on U.S. 264.

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The Chandler Wobble

Latitude Observatory Park

The Chandler Wobble is a small motion in the Earth's axis of rotation relative to the Earth's surface, which was discovered by American astronomer, Seth Carlo Chandler, Jr., in 1891. It is one of several wobbling motions that ...

Forester A. Sondley

1857 ~ 1931

Historian, lawyer, and

bibliophile. Gave to

Asheville the Sondley

Reference Library. His

home is 2.7 mi. north.

Marker is at the intersection of Tunnel Road (U.S. 70) and Beverly Road, on the right when traveling west on Tunnel Road. ...

Standing Proudly on the Hill

From its beginning as Fairmount College in 1895, Wichita State University has stood, like these columns, “proudly on the hill” – a phrase from the university’s “Alma Mater” referencing the highest point of land in Sedgwick County. The columns were ...

Mrs. Addie Cowley Bradley

In honor of

Mrs. Addie Cowley Bradley

who was the first white girl born

in Eldorado Township;

the first in Butler County;

the first in the Fifth District of Kansas.

Born May 4, 1858. Died Feb. 27, 1932.

Boulder furnished by

W.H.L. Wallace

Womens Relief Corps. No. 7.

ElDorado Kansas

Courtesy ...

Site of an Early Barbed Wire Fence in the Panhandle

In the latter 1880's, when fencing was needed in the treeless Texas Panhandle, the solution proved to be barbed wire. Joseph F. Glidden of Illinois devised and by 1876 was manufacturing (with I.L. Ellwood) the first really practical barbed wire ...

Finch-Lord-Nelson and the Founding of Panhandle City

Cattle firm that had brought first Herefords to region — Lue Finch, W.H. Lord, O.H. Nelson — in 1887 promoted Panhandle City, as railroad line approached. They sent in ten cowboys to stake claims around city, which prospered as county ...

Texas Panhandle Pioneers: The Simms Brothers

Permanent citizens, forgers of local civilization. Walter Franklin (1869-1963), George Leonard (born 1875) and Dormer D. Simms (born 1884) moved to Texas in 1886 and to this county in the early 1900's. They arrived later than visiting hunters, soldiers and ...