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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QJB_a-brief-history-of-early-lindsborg_Lindsborg-KS.html
THE FIRST SWEDISH AGRICULTURAL COMPANY was formed in Chicago in early 1868. The Company, with the assistance of Railroad Agents, purchased 13,160 acres of land here in the Smoky Valley, and sent Anders Olsson, A. Jacobson, L. N. Sandell, Magnus Ca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QJA_veterans-memorial_McPherson-KS.html
In memory of our
departed comrades
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QJ8_evangelical-covenant-church_Lindsborg-KS.html
Emigrants from Östergötland, Sweden formed the Rose Hill Church northeast of Lindsborg in 1874 with J.A. Pihl as pastor. They were joined by fifty people who had left Bethany Lutheran Church. In 1876 the congregation built a church in town, only…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QJ7_birger-sandzen_Lindsborg-KS.html
To the plains and mountains of America's West came not only waves of pioneers but also immigrants directly from Europe. Swedish painter Birger Sandzén (1871-1954) arrived in Lindsborg at the age of 23 on September 4, 1894, to teach at Betha…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QJ6_messiah-lutheran-church_Lindsborg-KS.html
In 1908, Lindsborg presented a fertile time and place for the establishment of an English speaking Lutheran Church. Messiah Evangelical Lutheran Church, located two blocks west, was organized on January 15, 1909.
Following an organizational meeti…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QJ3_bethany-college_Lindsborg-KS.html
Bethany College, located one block west, is a small, liberal-arts based college solidly rooted here in Lindsborg.
Established by Swedish Lutheran immigrants in 1881, Bethany is a college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, owned and op…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JPL_war-memorial_Lindsborg-KS.html
Dedicated in perpetual memory to those who served and to the valiants who gave their lives for the United States of America in its wars.
World War I
Killed in Action
Emil Pinkall
Died in Service
Claude Pratt · Elmer Holmgren
World…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JO6_hans-hanson-house_Marquette-KS.html
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
11-11-95
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1J2Q_major-general-james-b-mcpherson_McPherson-KS.html
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1J2P_pow-mia-memorial_McPherson-KS.html
In honored remembrance of
all American Prisoners of War
and those still Missing in Action
Dedicated on Veteran's Day
November 11, 2004