Built in 1885, as a large rooming house with 16 sleeping rooms and over 4,000 sq ft. Commonly known as the Crabtree Apartments. RH Crabtree bought it in 1901 & it remained in the family until 1961. It is one of the oldest remaining structures in . . . — — Map (db m258853) HM
Built in 1900 by EE Nichols for his dry goods store, it was later known as McDaniel Auto Co, Dickhut Auto Garage & Scott City Motor Supply until purchased by the Lewis Family in 1981. SC Chamber. — — Map (db m258896) HM
In Scott County State Park three miles northwest is El Quartelejo, only known Indian pueblo in Kansas. About 1650, it is believed, Taos Indians migrated here to escape Spanish oppression. Later they were persuaded by the Spanish governor to return . . . — — Map (db m67917) HM
Formed in 1928 and chartered by Congress in 1984
In WWI a custom evolved to display red and white banners with a blue star for each living member of a family serving in the US Armed Forces.
A gold star was displayed on the banner to . . . — — Map (db m200827) HM WM
Built in 1885, the Grand Central was one of two hotels built in 1880s and was considered one of the best hotels in the western part of the state. It contained 18 guest rooms & a dining room that would seat 40 guests. It was destroyed by fire on . . . — — Map (db m258889) HM
Anthem Lodge #284 was founded in 1886 and met in a 2 story frame building on this site. In 1915, it was purchased by Greenlee Bakery. During its heyday it produced 3,500 loaves per day! It burned down in 1916 & again in 1929, at which time the . . . — — Map (db m258893) HM
In 1902 JW Roark & Son purchased the Meisenheimer Merchantile stock and began business on 5th & DeGeer. In 1908, they built a new building at 514 Main and in 1915 they built this massive 2 story building. The building later was the site of the RVW . . . — — Map (db m258898) HM
In 1887, JD & GW Livengood of Elklick, Penn visited Scott City and decided to open a mercantile store. They traveled to Chicago and purchased $8,000 of stock to open their mammoth store. In 1899, they built a new store on this site and operated it . . . — — Map (db m258895) HM
We left Garden City on the 28th of September, 1884, taking with us a double-seated, lightwagon, a large keg of water, buffalo robes, food, matches, some kindling wood and a spade and hatchet and my daughter, Mrs. Eastman, and myself, accompanied . . . — — Map (db m258832) HM
In 1887, W. Meisenheimer built a 25x80 two-story brick building for his mercantile business from locally made brick, with a 25x70 frame hardware building on back. Purchased by RB Christy in 1902, it housed 1st State Bank and 1st National Bank. The . . . — — Map (db m258899) HM
Built in 1905 by A. B. Timmerman for a drug store and funeral parlor, it stood for 107 years until destroyed by fire in 2014. Also known as the Marshall Building where Marshalls clothing store operated for 45 years. Many other businesses, offices . . . — — Map (db m258897) HM
Dedicated in honor of
the men & women who
served our country &
those who made the
supreme sacrifice in
World Wars I-II
Korean & Vietnam
World War I
Ezra Conner Lloyd Crooks Orvis Hull Frederick O. Reese Lester Reid . . . — — Map (db m65977) WM
This marks the site of the last encounter in the State of Kansas between Native Americans and the United States Troops. Homesick and ill, the Northern Cheyenne under the leadership of Chief Dull Knife and Little Wolf were trying to return to . . . — — Map (db m65978) HM
Reconstructed here are the remains of a seven-room pueblo believed to have been built by Pueblo Indians from New Mexico. According to Spanish records Indians from Taos and Picuris Pueblos, fleeing Spanish rule, joined their Apache allies at a . . . — — Map (db m65952) HM
In 1899, when Prof. H. T. Martin of the University of Kansas made the first archeological excavations of El Cuartelejo, most of the lower part of the original stone work was still in place, as shown in this photograph. Evidences of several other . . . — — Map (db m65975) HM
This marks the site of the
Picurie Indian Pueblo
1604
which became an outpost
of Spanish civilization
and a rendezvous for
French traders prior to
1720 — — Map (db m65914) HM
Although El Cuartelejo is popularly associated with a Puebloan people, during most of its habitation it was actually used by a band of Plains Apache. They were descendants of Indians who came into the Plains from the North probably in late . . . — — Map (db m65954) HM
Stone from the surrounding hills was used to build El Cuartelejo pueblo. The walls were plastered inside and out with adobe and the roof was made of willow poles or brush covered with mud. When first excavated in abundant charcoal, burned tools . . . — — Map (db m65953) HM
