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  • Blasing Springs, Riley County

    Blasing Springs, Riley County

    This is a short history of the hotel and mineral springs community that once existed on land owned by the William Blasing family, Zeandale Township, Riley County, Kansas. Although not actually a town, Blasing Springs was a thriving enterprise…

  • Pavilion, Wabaunsee County

    Pavilion, Wabaunsee County

    The following passage is a historically backed re-creation of life in the rural Kansas township. I have done extensive research on the township of Pavilion as well as the surrounding area, and I have chosen to integrate facts with fiction in an…

  • Swamp Angel, Pottawatomie County

    Swamp Angel, Pottawatomie County

    The author theorizes the name of "Swamp Angel" and its possible settlement by its remaining un-incorporated houses, grain silo and railroad tracks located on the floodplain of the Kansas River.

  • Tuttle Creek Spillway Flooding, 1993

    Tuttle Creek Dam, Riley County

  • Jerry Mitchell with trash collecting vehicle, c.1912

    Manhattan Bottoms, Riley County

    Using the case study of Jeremiah "Jerry" Mitchell, this study documents the early history of Manhattan Bottoms and the African American community located there.




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