Early dam and mill at Beecky Ford described in 1876
The article recounts Miss Jennie Thompson Foeat and C F Eriegon starting a crib dam and mill on the Beecky Ford region in summer 1876. It details log crib construction, rock fill, crescent-shaped dam, flood impact, and the Leffel turbine mill with 150 barrels daily capacity before a fire destroyed it. Local residents L G Nystrom, Harold Coleman, Clyde Norris, and others hosted gatherings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forest
C. F. Eriegon
Beecky Ford
Sherdahl
Leffel’s
C. F. Ericson
Know Your Kansas Oddities From Local History
A tour of Kansas towns reveals quirky pasts from Verdigris herons and a saloon school in Larned to vegetarian colonies near the Niobrara and a 1923 wheat field moment with Harding. Highlights include Plains inventor Angell, Dodge City dictionaries, Tonganoxie’s name, Ulysses’ growth, and Harbord’s youth near Bushong.
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Cottonwood Falls
Horseshoe Bend
Verdigris River
Humboldt
Neosho River
Here
EL Dorado
Plains
Charles Angell
Angell
Page City
Logan County
Dodge City
Frank G
Qrt
Webster’s
Santa FE
TRAIL
F. M
Stahl
Highland
Masonic Lodge
Wathena
Tonganoxie
Tonga
Hutchinson
Warren G. Harding
United States
Arthur Capper
Jonathan M. Davis
Kansas
Allstar
Harding
Rydall
Ulysses
Almatron
Kansas City
Bushong
James Gutherie Harbord
Pershing
Kansas Agricultural College
Manhattan
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Jennie Thompson Foeat
Mr. Mahan
John Mahan
Harold Coleman
Joe’ Cline
Fred Cline
St. Joseph Hospital
Japan
Koraku
Tokyo
Ed & Babe's Cafe
Linko Peas
Linko
Nebia
Nebia Kraut
the Hammer Grocery
Capitol
Larned
Courtland Pictures, Ltd
Courtland, Kansas
Kelly
Patsy Kelly
Ben Kelton
Sunkist
Palm “Springs
Scandia
THE
Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra
Concordia, Kansas
Karl Krueger
Concordia
Blaney
Music
Nots Deere
Joan Deere
Grand Detour
W. C. Prebee
UBC
Glendale
FLAKE
Hominy
Norway State Bank
Norway
Kanas
State OF
County
OF. Republic
BS. I
John’ Chizek
John:chizek
Charles Chizek
Public Commission
John Chizek
F. E. Ames
J. W. Cowle
Edith P
Chizek
Topeka
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