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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SXW_avenue-of-flags-a-war-memorial_Hays-KS.html
In Memory of
Departed Comrades
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SXD_col-wm-f-buffalo-bill-cody-historical_Hays-KS.html
Co-founder, with William Rose, in 1867, of the town of Rome, predecessor of Hays.
The townsite of Rome is one mile west of this point (West 12th St., extended), north of the R.R. track and along the west bank of Big Creek. A permanent marker is l…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SXC_walker-army-airfield-historical_Hays-KS.html
With the development of the B-29 Superfortress bomber, it became necessary to establish air fields at which air and ground crews would be trained. Four of these fields were built in Kansas, one each at Salina, Pratt, Great Bend, and Walker.
Walke…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SWO_james-butler-wild-bill-hickok-historical_Hays-KS.html
When Ellis County's elected officials failed in mid-1869 to maintain law and order, the "Better Class of Citizens" hired well-known gunfighter James Butler Hickok to act as "Sheriff". Sam Strawhun and Bill Mulvey resisted Hickok and were soon bu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SPW_replica-of-the-statue-of-liberty_Hays-KS.html
With the faith and courage of
their forefathers who made
possible the freedom of these
United States
The Boy Scouts of America
dedicate this replica of the
Statue of Liberty as a pledge
of everlasting fidelity and
loyalty
40th Anniversa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IWL_victoria_Victoria-KS.html
Nowhere in America were two colonies more unlike than those that came here. Scarlet-coated Britishers who chased antelope on bob-tailed ponies were joined by frugal and hard-working German-Russian immigrants. A Scotsman, George Grant, with 69,000 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G93_the-ellis-house_Ellis-KS.html
Built in 1872 of native limestone from a quarry 2 miles east of Ellis, The Ellis House was the scene of colorful functions and dances drawing people from a radius of up to 100 miles. Centrally located halfway between Kansas City and Denver, it was…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14N8_cathedral-of-the-plains_Victoria-KS.html
Erected between 1908 and 1911 by German and German Russian Catholics, this native limestone edifice is one of the largest buildings on the Great Plains, its twin towers soar 141 feet above its 220 feet by 79 feet foundation.
Placing of the 100-…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14MM_veterans-memorial_Victoria-KS.html
Let the names of the battlesforever be writtenin our history books...but let the memory ofall those who served and diedbe forever etched inour hearts
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14ML_capuchin-franciscan-friars_Victoria-KS.html
have ministered to the Catholics of Ellis County since 1878. Saint Fidelis Friary, Herzog (Victoria), was established by Father Matthew Hau, O.F.M. Cap., and Father Anastasius Mueller, O.F.M. Cap., at the invitation of the Bishop of Leavenworth, R…