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!
Scandia Saga Preserves a Century of Local Life
A sweeping reminiscence details Scandia Kansas from early settlement through the 1930s and 1940s. It chronicles businesses banks hotels livery and shops. schools churches and cultural events. floods droughts and the arrival of electricity gas service and telephones. It notes notable residents and institutions including rail depots post office library and the 1930s bank closures and reopenings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Chadwick
Ivery Barn
Molly
Main Street
Frank
Ming
Charley Wil Bertha Wilson
E. C. Wires
F. L. Warren
Bank of Scandia
D. A. NyWwall
Brotchie
Hllingson
Scandia
John Loring
Zora Egg
Ats
Pehold
J. Jennings
Bank of
Hendrix
Kansas
C. H. Herrman
Norway Township
Thure Wohlfort
Lars Larson
Wilson and
Smith Real Estate
L. H. Hendrix
John A. Freeburg
M. A. Prebie
Republic County
Preble
Buick Automobiles
Dicker- White and Stover Hason and Goodman Lumber Company
Pump and Cullers
Goodwin Hardware
Wm. Gunter
Beckman
C. W. Gulick
Godfrey
Star Grocery
Adolph Nelson
Granstedt
Seabolt
Olson
Doctor Brothers
John Hemberger
John Larson
Ice Larson
Eric Larson
California
Missouri Pacific
Kansas City
Rock Island
Denver
Colorado Springs
Chicago
Belleville
Merchants
Republican Valley
Valley House
Brunswick Hotel
Hanson House
Harvey Sandell
D. A. Nywall
B. C Wires
T. J. West
Stranager
Hayrack
Great American Desert
Pleasant Valley
Alex Lindahl
Elvera
Earl
Ma Lindahl
Chas. Nordmark
J. E. Johnston
Republican
Little Paul
Riverview
Rackley
Germany
Russia
France
Great Britain
Austria - Hungary
Wilson
Albert Isaacson
Fred Rasmussen
Willie Cline
Europe
C. R. McGregor
Will Ellingson
Arthur Wrigley
Abe Johnson
Andrew Granstedt
Stanley Schwahn
Ivar Norden
Vernon Holmes
Farmers and Merchants Bank
A. R. Morey
Scandia Journal
Palace Drug Store
Wires
Haggman and Wires
M. A. Preble and Son
W. S. Baker
United Brethren Church
United Brethren
Vastra Svenska Konferencen
Methodist Church
Nebraska
Colorado
J. W. Hamilton
C. G. Buckley
O. J. Swan
The
W. M
Swedish Methodist Church
Hershel Kannier
Stofer Brothers
B. W. Selin
Edior
L. A. Melby
Walter H. Berger
Scandia City Library
Hageman
Gottfrid Larson
E. S. Wilson
America
State Banking Commission
Courtland
Scandia State Bank
Adolph Johnson
Kackley
Walter Boyles
Methodist
Mankato
C.W.A
G. P. Plotner
Sherman English
Minnie Cardwell
Scandia Telephone Company
United Telephone Company of
Abilene
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Eva Loreng
Southwestern Bell
Supt
F. L. Miller