Erected by
Union Pacific Railroad Company
to mark the burial place of
Alexander McKeefer and John Lynch
who were killed
by a band of Cheyenne Indians,
May 28, 1869
while working as track laborers
two miles west of
Fossil Creek . . . — — Map (db m95544) HM
Created in honor of Irishman Nicholas Gernon, a blacksmith by trade and one of the original members of the Ripon Colony - founders of Russell in 1871. He served as director of the Town Site Company well into the mid 1880s. In 1872 he built the . . . — — Map (db m95518) HM
When railroads first built across Kansas in the 1860s, Plains Indians inhabited much of the central and western part of the state. They did not welcome the incursion, sensing a danger to the buffalo herds that provided them with food, shelter, and . . . — — Map (db m95588) HM
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