Kansas History and Heritage Project--Franklin County History

Franklin County History


1876 history of Franklin Co., from Charles Tuttle's "A New Centennial History of Kansas," 1876

1887 post offices and postmasters

1909 Pomona flood, photo and story of a A.,T and S. F. passenger train in the Marais Des Cygnes river.

Semple Sanitarium, 128 N. Locust, Ottawa, operated by Etta Semple until her death in 1914. (photo contributed by Susie Graber)

Ottawa roundhouse, about 1912. (photo contributed by Susie Graber)

Hamblin Building, Ottawa, included Peoples National Bank, Masonic Temple and Elks Club, about 1912. (photo contributed by Susie Graber)



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