The first Indian mission and school in present Kansas was established in September, 1824, about five miles west of this marker. Benton Pixley, the missionary, followed Chief White Hair and his band of Great Osages who had migrated from Missouri . . . — — Map (db m46198) HM
Oak Grove, District No. 20, was established in 1867 in Lincoln Township, Neosho County, the same year that the two neighboring counties of Neosho and Labette were formed from what was originally the single county of Dorn. Oak Grove was thus one of . . . — — Map (db m229749) HM
This is the oldest surviving courthouse designed by George P Washburn of Ottawa. Before coming to town, Washburn had worked for the Kansas City architectural firm of Cross and Taylor where he supervised construction of Union railroad depots . . . — — Map (db m67586) HM
Located about three miles northeast of Chanute on the eastern riverbank at a ford now known as Brown Wells Dam the town of Osage City sprang up in 1856. A man named John Beck and others came to the area from the Tioga River basin in New York. Beck . . . — — Map (db m92301) HM
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