In 1825 President James Monroe approved a bill providing for the survey of the Santa Fe Trail from Missouri to New Mexico and the making of treaties to insure friendly relations with Indians along the route. A mile west of this sign, on Dry Turkey . . . — — Map (db m53059) HM
Charles Wesley
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Glory To The New Born KingO For A Thousand Tongues To Sing
My Great Redeemer's Praise
John Wesley
"The World Is My Parish"
Swedish Methodist Church, 1881 - . . . — — Map (db m80604) HM
THE FIRST SWEDISH AGRICULTURAL COMPANY was formed in Chicago in early 1868. The Company, with the assistance of Railroad Agents, purchased 13,160 acres of land here in the Smoky Valley, and sent Anders Olsson, A. Jacobson, L. N. Sandell, Magnus . . . — — Map (db m92299) HM
Bethany College, located one block west, is a small, liberal-arts based college solidly rooted here in Lindsborg.
Established by Swedish Lutheran immigrants in 1881, Bethany is a college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, owned and . . . — — Map (db m92293) HM
To the plains and mountains of America's West came not only waves of pioneers but also immigrants directly from Europe. Swedish painter Birger Sandzén (1871-1954) arrived in Lindsborg at the age of 23 on September 4, 1894, to teach at Bethany . . . — — Map (db m92294) HM
Emigrants from Östergötland, Sweden formed the Rose Hill Church northeast of Lindsborg in 1874 with J.A. Pihl as pastor. They were joined by fifty people who had left Bethany Lutheran Church. In 1876 the congregation built a church in town, only . . . — — Map (db m92298) HM
Anton Pearson was an immigrant from Lund, Skåne, in southern Sweden. He is best known for his woodcarvings of local Lindsborg and Smoky Valley characters depicted in everyday situations. Anton opened his studio in 1929. Today it continues to be a . . . — — Map (db m129427) HM
Handel's "Messiah" has been performed annually in Lindsborg since 1882. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson, the founder of Bethany College and pastor at Bethany Lutheran Church, was introduced to it by Pastor Olof Olsson, a Lindsborg pioneer who had moved to . . . — — Map (db m95408) HM
In 1908, Lindsborg presented a fertile time and place for the establishment of an English speaking Lutheran Church. Messiah Evangelical Lutheran Church, located two blocks west, was organized on January 15, 1909.
Following an organizational . . . — — Map (db m92295) HM
Hello! Welcome to My World, a place where you can, like me, let your imagination run wild. Do you believe that good buildings die and go to heaven? If you do, welcome to my fantasy of Architectural Heaven. Please travel with me and our . . . — — Map (db m54089) HM
1872 Dam grant to Charles Johnson. First grist and saw mill
1887 Destroyed by fire
1889 Smoky Valley Roller Mill built by J. C. Bergsten
1890 Purchased by Theodore Teichgraber
1907-1927 Operated by Wm. Hagstrom
1934-1935 Reopened and . . . — — Map (db m54054) HM
1Lt. USAF who was shot down on April 2, 1970 while on a mission over South Vietnam
He will be remembered with pride by all who knew him. — — Map (db m80660) WM
The Swedish Pavilion, the largest building to the south, was originally the Swedish exposition building at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. Modeled after traditional Swedish manor houses, the Pavilion was prefabricated in Sweden, . . . — — Map (db m95406) HM
Built 1906
has been placed on the
National Register of
Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
Reg.[istered] 11-15-2005 — — Map (db m80658) HM
The Terrible Swedes
In 1902, Dr. Carl A. Swensson, president of Bethany College, hired Bennie Owen as coach of the Bethany Swedes football team. He developed an awesome team that demolished all opponents, including the University of Oklahoma . . . — — Map (db m95415) HM
Dedicated in perpetual memory to those who served and to the valiants who gave their lives for the United States of America in its wars.
World War I
Killed in Action
Emil Pinkall
Died in Service
Claude Pratt • Elmer Holmgren
World . . . — — Map (db m81795) WM
The story of Lucia, the symbol of light amid the darkness for Sweden, has many different versions. Although her feast day is celebrated on December 13th in Sweden, Lindsborg celebrates Lucia Day on the second Saturday in December. Lucia was born . . . — — Map (db m54082) HM
The
Womans Missionary Society
of
The Lutheran Augustana Synod was
organized at this site June 6-1892
which was then the home of
Dr. C.A. Swensson
Founder and President of Bethany College
with
Fifty Charter Members present . . . — — Map (db m57008) HM
These mill stones were used in Marquette's first mill built in 1874 on the bank of the Smoky Hill River by H. S. Bacon, the town founder. The mill was the first industry and the beginning of Marquette - founded February 9th, 1874. This is a . . . — — Map (db m95299) HM
Organized in 1880. A school was built 9 mil. NW of Marquette. In 1906 a new school was built and closed in 1948. Range was donated by John Hughes and then moved to Marquette. Plaque by Etta Hockstrasser Memorial in memory of Hughes' who attended . . . — — Map (db m95291) HM
The people of
Marquette
dedicate this memorial
to the men and women
of this community
who served our country
—————————
The Walkway of Honor
for those who have
served our . . . — — Map (db m163629) WM
In grateful tribute to the supreme sacrifice of our comrades
Co. D, 2nd Kans. Inf.
James C. Marymee • Donald E. McKellar • Virgil Berkebile • Rosser C. Fraser • Earl J. Lathwell • Sidney P. Fisher • Ralph Branton • Andrew Malm • Lester L. Reid • . . . — — Map (db m80708) WM
Federal Interstate Highway I-35 has been declared
as a living memorial honoring the 35th Infantry
Division by the Legislature and Governor by the
provisions of K.S.A. 68-1013, enacted June 30, 1963.
The 35th Infantry Division was composed . . . — — Map (db m223507) HM WM
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
Reg.[istered] 3-17-1972 — — Map (db m80664) HM
On this site was located the McPherson Town Company Building built in 1873 at a cost of $1,250.00. It was the headquarters of all government and civic activity for the little village as a court house, city hall, school house, church meeting place, . . . — — Map (db m80710) HM
In honored remembrance of
all American Prisoners of War
and those still Missing in Action
Dedicated on Veteran's Day
November 11, 2004 — — Map (db m80704) WM
On 13 May 2003, Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius, proclaimed the Eisenhower Interstate Highway System in Kansas, as the "Purple Heart Trail." This trail memorializes those heroic service members who have had the Purple Heart medal bestowed on . . . — — Map (db m223497) HM WM
On 3 September 1846, the Mormon Battalion camped near here on its way to fight in the war with Mexico. This small army of more than 500 men and officers had been recruited at Council Bluffs, Iowa, from among the Mormon pioneers (members of The . . . — — Map (db m80663) HM
Anabaptism originated in Switzerland in 1525 during the Reformation under the leadership of Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, Georg Blaurock, and others. Most Anabaptists were later named "Mennonites" in recognition of the leadership of Menno . . . — — Map (db m57138) HM
The Memorial symbolizes our heritage of the Christian faith and expresses gratitude to God for His faithful leading.
The Pillar directs us Godward and suggests a tower of strength.
The Globe symbolizes the world populated by . . . — — Map (db m57139) HM
The parent of this tree is the centuries old oak on the island of Chortitza near Zaparozhye, Ukraine, on the site of a Mennonite settlement dating from 1789. Acorns were gathered on the 1997 Mennonite Heritage Tour led by Harley Stucky and Oswald . . . — — Map (db m57029) HM
Elder Jacob Stucky and Rev. Jacob D. Goering laid the foundation for orderly church life that centered in the Immigrant House and later in the Hopefield Church, Moundridge, Kansas. After some time the group began to disperse. Today, . . . — — Map (db m57144) HM
of Kotosufka, Volhynia, Russia whose members left Russia in search of religious liberty, sixty-two families sailing on the "City of Richmond," landing in New York September 3, 1874, and in October arriving on this Quarter Sectin (S.W. Quarter . . . — — Map (db m57149) HM
This Centennial Memorial, erected in gratitude to God, commemorates the coming to America of the Swiss-German Mennonites in the Fall of 1874 from Volhynia, a former Polish province, in the present Russian Ukraine. It symbolizes the Christian . . . — — Map (db m57109) HM
The Mennonites came here because of their Anabaptist vision of the Christian faith and established Christian communities. Some wept as they said farewell to Russia and later, as they saw the endless miles of raw prairie, and encountered prairie . . . — — Map (db m57145) HM
Seventy-three families, the Mennonite Congregation of Kotosufka, left Russia on Aug. 6, 1874, under the leadership of Elder Jacob Stucky and Rev. Jacob D. Goering, at Liverpool, England. They embarked on the "City of Richmond," arriving in . . . — — Map (db m57132) HM
The Mennonites brought Turkey Hard Red Winter Wheat. The seeds were carefully selected, often kernel by kernel, frequently by grandparents and sometimes with the help of children. Many Mennonite families, here and in surrounding communities, . . . — — Map (db m57142) HM
In honor of
Robert G. Manning
whose hardware store and civic reliability served this community from 1915 to 1958. It is with much respect, gratitude and affection that we acknowledge his intellect; his integrity; his independent spirit and . . . — — Map (db m80639) HM
