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!
This Week in History 10 to 50 Years Ago in Ottawa
Chronicle of weekly items from 1992 1977 and 1952 noting awards, school finance, road work, fire dispatch policies, medical bone marrow treatment, aging meals programs, water projects, floods, housing permits, FBI academy, blood drives and river channel projects in Ottawa Kansas with named figures and local agencies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gary Underwood
Underwood Equipment
Russell Crites
Ottawa
Kansas
Ottawa Board of Education
Duncan
Dave Warren
Ottawa City Commission
Kansas Department of Transportation
Wilson Road
Main
Davis Road
Franklin County
911 Board of Directors
Wellsville
Jim Stonequist
Rex Bowling
Iowa
Kelly Bloomer
University of Iowa
Franklin County Council On Aging
Elizabeth Maxwell
Mid-America
Mid America
Princeton
Rantoul
RFD
Rantoul Fire Department
REACT
Floyd Coffman
Seventh and Mulberry
Board of Zoning Appeals
Coffman
Oren Skiles
Ottawa Department of Public Safety
FBI National Academy
Quantico
Skiles
Princeton Rural Water District No
Army Engineers
Marais Des Cygnes
Locust Street
Main Street
Darby Wilson
Darby
Santa Fe
HL. Miller
Melvern
Garfield
Ransom Memorial Hospital