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Try walking through a muddy field on a rainy day in May Notes. Spring Creek runs through Derby (then called El Paso) and Dog Creek is so...

Wrought Iron Truss Bridge in Butler County, Walnut River, near Douglas, Kansas Drive south of Augusta, Kansas on Highway 77.  [Highw...

Chase County is named after Salmon P. Chase,  United States Senator from and Governor of Ohio, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. The...

June, July, and August have been wet, but the rains won’t be enough to bring water tables back to normal, as the first half of the year wa...

Before the Civil War, Franklin County was home to several Indian tribes including the Osage and Ottawa. (Other tribes who settled in Frankli...

The following story was printed in the Urbana Daily Courier, 24 September 1917 . the article was printed after the Topeka Daily Capital repo...

For Sale, Providence Mineral Wells:  In 1893, when A.A. Hyde, inventor and founder of Mentholatum of Wichita, advertized the sale of t...