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- Tags: Kansas City
Faith in Transformation: Eskridge Covenanter Church and the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America, Eskridge, Kansas, 1884-1964
Tags: Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe, Bo Lin, Calvanism, Covenanters, District School #29, Eskridge, Eskridge Covenanter Church, Jemma Davis Martin, Kansas City, Mission Creek, Prebyterian Church, Protestant Reformation, Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America, Scots-Irish, Thomas John Martin, Topeka, Wabaunsee County, Wilmington Township
Slender Rails, Big Risk: The Kansas Central Railway, 1871-1935.
Tags: Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe, C.K. Garrison, Denver, Holton, Jackson County, Jay Gould, Jessica Wheeler, Kansas Central, Kansas Central Railway, Kansas City, Kansas Pacific Railway, Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, Leonard Smith, Mill Creek Township, Missouri River, Onaga, The Leavenworth Times, Union Pacific, Vermillion River
Generations of Achievement: The Family and Early Life of Orchid Ramsey Jordan in Clay Center, Kansas, 1910–1928
Tags: African American history, African Americans, assassination, Celestine Ramsey, Charles Addisin Eyre, civil rights movement, Civil War, Clay County, female politicans, Harvey Ramsey, interracial marriage, Kansas City, Leon Jordan, Liberia, Maud Eyre, Merriman Ramsey, Missouri House of Representatives, Orchid Jordan, Orchid Ramsey, racial integration, racial segregation, Susan Eyre, Wakefield, Wilberforce University
Generations of Achievement: The Family and Early Life of Orchid Ramsey Jordan in Clay Center, Kansas, 1910-1928
Tags: African American history, African Americans, assassination, Celestine Ramsey, Charles Addisin Eyre, civil rights movement, Civil War, Clay County, female politicans, Harvey Ramsey, interracial marriage, Kansas City, Leon Jordan, Liberia, Maud Eyre, Merriman Ramsey, Missouri House of Representatives, Orchid Jordan, Orchid Ramsey, racial integration, racial segregation, Susan Eyre, Wakefield, Wilberforce University
Jarbalo, Leavenworth County
While never officially incorporated, it is a community with a curious history that survives even now.
This exhibit uses field work, photographs, interviews, written histories,…
Tags: 1966 Tornados, Alexandria Township, Delaware Indian Reserve, Doc and William Mason, Highway 24-40, Isaiah Lowe, Jarbalo, Jarbalo Methodist Church, Jarbalo Rural High School, John Wright, Kansas City, Lawrence, Leavenworth County, Leavenworth Topeka & Southwestern Railway, Mallory Harrell, Opliger Grocery Store, Stranger Creek, Stranger Valley Grange, Stranger Valley School, Thamar Barnett, Tonganoxie, Vigus Garage, Wright's Station
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Broughton, Clay County

At the latest estimate, Kansas may have nearly 9,000 vanished, named communities. These places had many faces: small crossroads villages; depot mail…