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The Romanians Are Coming!
– by Paul Miller – My parents, Clarence and Lourine Miller, took advantage of a program through the Lutheran Church to sponsor a refugee family from Europe to bring them to the […]
Stone Fences of Wabaunsee County
– by Paul Miller – One of the features of Wabaunsee County that visitors and natives enjoy viewing is the native stone fence. Many of the fences are still in use today […]
Great-Grandfather’s Civil War Rifle
-by Dean Gladow- In retrospect, it was perhaps too much to expect. Great-grandfather “Fred” Heidemann, whose christened name– from the church record of his birth on January 13, 1834, at Petersdorf (near […]
Wabaunsee County Video Recollections
Click here for the main menu to view these recordings. These films are the result of a collaboration between Mark Feiden and the Wabaunsee County Historical Society. It is an ongoing effort […]
Hidden Cellar Discovered Beneath Museum Annex
Recently, while maintenance was underway in the Wabaunsee County Historical Society’s annex building, located at 223 S. Missouri Street in Alma, Kansas, a hidden underground cellar or “cave” was discovered under the […]
1939 Phone Book, Alma, Eskridge, Maple Hill, Kansas
This American Telephone Company phone book from 1939 includes listings from Alma, Eskridge, and Maple Hill, Kansas. The covers provide a listing of local businesses, and virtually every business in the three […]
Prussian Hero Grandfather Adapts To Wabaunsee County
-by Dean Gladow [Note: Second in a series concerning the Heidemann/Bock/Gladow family.] Normally, a generation is thought to be about twenty-five years. However, there are exceptions, including my maternal grandfather being 91 […]
Old Friends of the Flint Hills: Russell Woofter, 1915-2007
By Greg Hoots Author’s note: This article originally appeared in the 2012 print edition of the Flint Hills Special. Russell Woofter was the hardest working man that I’ve ever known. Russell approached […]
Matchbook Memories
One of the great inventions of the 19th century which greatly improved the quality of life for virtually all Americans was the creation of the match in the early 1800s. The first […]
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