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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15F4_back-to-basics_Strong-City-KS.html
"It seemed... a lonely little house of scholarship, with its playground worn so bare... But that humble little school had a dignity of a fixed and far off purpose... It was the outpost of civilization... driving the wilderness farther into the wes…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXEJ_a-landmark-of-distinction_Cottonwood-Falls-KS.html
Cottonwood Falls has been the Chase county seat since both town and county were established in 1859. The first log cabin-courthouse was replaced in 1873 by this stately building of native limestone and walnut, which today is the oldest Kansas cour…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXEH_curious-outbuildings_Strong-City-KS.html
Stephen F. Jones spared no expense in the construction of his Spring Hill Ranch outbuildings.
The Flint Hills provided the main building materials for both the house and outbuildings - high quality limestone quarried and hand cut here in Chase …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXEG_vital-necessities_Strong-City-KS.html
The raised concrete slab behind the house covers a combination storm and root cellar, accessible from a lower level of the house. It is said that Mrs. Jones "feared tornadoes and took extreme precautions against them." This underground chamber als…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXEE_welcome-to-the-prairie_Strong-City-KS.html
You have arrived at the only unit in the National Park Service dedicated to the tallgrass prairie ecosystem. Tallgrass prairie once covered a vast region that stretched from Mexico into Canada. Today, only a small fraction - perhaps less than four…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXED_little-barn-on-the-prairie_Strong-City-KS.html
Upon completion, ranch owner Stephen F. Jones learned that his barn was one of the largest barns in the state of Kansas at the time.
Like most of the buildings on the ranch, the Spring Hill barn was built of limestone — the foundation of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXEC_spring-hill-ranch_Strong-City-KS.html
has been designated aNationalHistoric LandmarkThis site possessesnational significance incommemorating the historyof the United States of America
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXDF_prairie-for-the-people_Strong-City-KS.html
When Stephen F. Jones began acquiring this property for his Spring Hill Ranch in 1878, Kansas had been a state for 17 years, and much of the Kansas prairie was already being converted into cropland.
The majority of the land which now comprises …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUQS_chase-county-all-veterans-memorial_Cottonwood-Falls-KS.html
"And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor"—The Declaration of Independence
The Chase County All Vet…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUQJ_chase-county-and-the-city-of-cottonwood-falls_Cottonwood-Falls-KS.html
Chase County, named after Salmon P. Chase, who was a United States Senator from Ohio and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, was organized in 1859 in the Kansas Territory.
James Fisher, from Columbiana County, Ohio was the …