This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
My Center of the United States Farm Story
A narrator recalls growing up on a Kansas prairie farm near Lebanon and Maryville. He describes migrant families from Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee, homesteading after Civil War era land grabs, building a sod house, planting an orchard, and facing grasshoppers, fences, and the first school funded by Mr Knabb. The piece blends family history with regional pioneer life and ends with plans to continue next week.
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United States
United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey
Washington, D. C
Continental United States
Alaska
Smith County
Kansas
Lebanon
Maryville
Missouri
Chamber of Commerce
St. Joseph
Iowa Line
Salt Lake City
Great Plains
Pony Express
Jesse James
Ohio
California
Athens County
Tennessee
Kentucky
Indiana
Homestead
Croy
Namie
Aurgust
Grandfather Croy
Jim
Dexter
Purl
Johnson
Sewells
Illinois
Red Sea
Chickamauga