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Paleo-IndianPeriod
Vol. 1
Paleo-IndianPeriod
Vol. 2
Paleo-IndianPeriod
Vol. 3
Paleo-IndianPeriod
Vol. 4
10000 - 6000 BC 6000 BC – 1 AD
ArchaicPeriod
Vol. 5
ArchaicPeriod
Vol. 6
ArchaicPeriod
Vol. 7
ArchaicPeriod
Vol. 8
ArchaicPeriod
Vol. 9
ArchaicPeriod
Vol. 10
1 – 2000 AD
EarlyCeramicPeriod
Vol. 11
Middle& Late
CeramicPeriod to 2000 A.D.
Vol. 12
Kaw Wichita Osage
Pawnee Comanche
The stories before history…
Roglers: See Vol. 12, pp. 859-993
YOU ARE HERE
YOU ARE HERE IN 1901
If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are.–Wendell Berry
107 years ago1872
1872
1870s
1908
1915
250 million years ago10,000-12,000 years ago200 to 12,000 years ago130 years ago100 years ago
5 grocery stores in Matfield Green
Ticket from Strong City to California: $25
1901
Steam-poweredhay press
Pneumatic-tired, horse-drawn runabout
First f
lat tire
in C
hase County
Maud Sauble
Class of 1901K-State
Henry & Maud Sauble Rogler, 1901
Henry & Maud Sauble Rogler, 1971
1859-1888
Charles29 years
1,800 acres
Henry71 years
1901-1972
2,720 acres
1926-1993
Wayne67 years
4,081 acres
Wayne67 years
Henry71 years
Charles29 years
1865: $18 filing fee under 1862 Homestead Act
1901: $3.50 - $5.50/acre
1972: $50 - $150/acre
2006: $1,260 - $1,700
YOU ARE HERE
Sold at auction for
$6.9 millionOctober 19, 2006
GENERATIONS
Austria
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Maryland
Michigan
1850
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May 30, 1854 An Act to Organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas is passed by Congress, allowing the two newest territories to decide whether they will be slave or free states.
1851 Susan Ferris is born in Hillsdale, Michigan and Mary Mariah Satchell is born in Fountain County, Indiana. These two women would later become the mothers of Maud Sauble Rogler & Henry Rogler.
1852 16-year-old Charles W. Rogler is sent from the Kingdom of Saxony to America to find a homestead for his parents and siblings. He lived in Sandusky, Ohio on Lake Erie for several years, skinning cattle in a tannery to pay his way West.
1855 First public land survey in Chase County.
1856 Charles Rogler moves 500 miles west to Iowa City, Iowa 1859 Chase County organized,
with 72 votes cast in first election.
Spring, 1859 Charles Rogler (age 23) and Henry Brandley (age 19) walk to Kansas from Council Bluffs, Iowa to stake claims in Chase County
1858 Charles Rogler moves 200 miles west to Atlantic, Iowa
Charles Rogler Henry Brandley
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LEARN MORE• Climate, Agriculture & Technology in the 1850s• “Firsts” in Chase County, Kansas in the 1850s
1850
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May 30, 1854 An Act to Organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas is passed by Congress, allowing the two newest territories to decide whether they will be slave or free states.
1851 Susan Ferris is born in Hillsdale, Michigan and Mary Mariah Satchell is born in Fountain County, Indiana. These two women would later become the mothers of Maud Sauble Rogler & Henry Rogler.
1852 16-year-old Charles W. Rogler is sent from the Kingdom of Saxony to America to find a homestead for his parents and siblings. He lived in Sandusky, Ohio on Lake Erie for several years, skinning cattle in a tannery to pay his way West.
1855 First public land survey in Chase County.
1856 Charles Rogler moves 500 miles west to Iowa City, Iowa 1859 Chase County organized,
with 72 votes cast in first election.
Spring, 1859 Charles Rogler (age 23) and Henry Brandley (age 19) walk to Kansas from Council Bluffs, Iowa to stake claims in Chase County
1858 Charles Rogler moves 200 miles west to Atlantic, Iowa
Charles Rogler Henry Brandley
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LEARN MORE• Climate, Agriculture & Technology in the 1850s• “Firsts” in Chase County, Kansas in the 1850s
1850
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0
May 30, 1854 An Act to Organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas is passed by Congress, allowing the two newest territories to decide whether they will be slave or free states.
1851 Susan Ferris is born in Hillsdale, Michigan and Mary Mariah Satchell is born in Fountain County, Indiana. These two women would later become the mothers of Maud Sauble Rogler & Henry Rogler.
1852 16-year-old Charles W. Rogler is sent from the Kingdom of Saxony to America to find a homestead for his parents and siblings. He lived in Sandusky, Ohio on Lake Erie for several years, skinning cattle in a tannery to pay his way West.
1855 First public land survey in Chase County.
1856 Charles Rogler moves 500 miles west to Iowa City, Iowa 1859 Chase County organized,
with 72 votes cast in first election.
Spring, 1859 Charles Rogler (age 23) and Henry Brandley (age 19) walk to Kansas from Council Bluffs, Iowa to stake claims in Chase County
1858 Charles Rogler moves 200 miles west to Atlantic, Iowa
Charles Rogler Henry Brandley
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LEARN MORE• Climate, Agriculture & Technology in the 1850s• “Firsts” in Chase County, Kansas in the 1850s
Stones like this one, used in the 1855 survey to mark Section Corners and Quarter Corners, can still be found in Chase County. The number 4 is scratched into this stone to indicate it is a Quarter Corner stone. It is illegal to remove these markers unless they are replaced by modern survey markers, as was the case with this stone.
1850
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May 30, 1854 An Act to Organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas is passed by Congress, allowing the two newest territories to decide whether they will be slave or free states.
1851 Susan Ferris is born in Hillsdale, Michigan and Mary Mariah Satchell is born in Fountain County, Indiana. These two women would later become the mothers of Maud Sauble Rogler & Henry Rogler.
1852 16-year-old Charles W. Rogler is sent from the Kingdom of Saxony to America to find a homestead for his parents and siblings. He lived in Sandusky, Ohio on Lake Erie for several years, skinning cattle in a tannery to pay his way West.
1855 First public land survey in Chase County.
1856 Charles Rogler moves 500 miles west to Iowa City, Iowa 1859 Chase County organized,
with 72 votes cast in first election.
Spring, 1859 Charles Rogler (age 23) and Henry Brandley (age 19) walk to Kansas from Council Bluffs, Iowa to stake claims in Chase County
1858 Charles Rogler moves 200 miles west to Atlantic, Iowa
Charles Rogler Henry Brandley
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LEARN MORE• Climate, Agriculture & Technology in the 1850s• “Firsts” in Chase County, Kansas in the 1850s
29 YEARS: 4 MILES
CHARLES
HENRY
1859: OVER 700 MILES WEST
HENRYBRANDLEY
CHARLESROGLER
1839-1852: 178 MILES 1852: 233 MILES
CHARLES ROGLER
HENRY BRANDLEY
CHARLES
HENRY
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BACK
EUROPE
OHIO
IOWA
KANSAS
Kanesville Crossing atCouncil Bluffs
Missouri River
Platte River
IOWA
NEBRASKA
MISSOURI
KANSAS
St. Joseph
Ft. Leavenworth
Ft. Riley
Council Grove
Kansas RiverTecumseh
Westport
California-Oregon Trail
Santa Fe trail
Military road between old Ft. Kearny and Ft. Scott via Ft. Leavenworth
Military road between Ft. Leavenworth and Ft. Riley
State and territorial boundaries
Walking to Kansas in 1859
Stinson’s Ferry
Grinter’s Ferry
Cottonwood Falls
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Year Distance Speed Time
2008 263 miles
60 mph
4 hr.
41 min.
1859 300 - 370 miles
20 - 30 miles/ day
12 - 19 days
Kanesville Crossing at Council Bluffs
Fort Leavenworth
Typical ferry over the Kansas River in 1850s-1860s
Grinter’s Ferry
Brick-making machine, 1852
Pug mill at early-day brick works
He came on foot to Tecumseh, Kansas, where he was employed in a brick yard for a short time.
-Henry Brandley/Chase County Historical Sketches
Arriving at Tecumseh, six miles east of Topeka, they joined a small party of home seekers under the leadership of a Mr. Lyon.
-Charles Rogler/Chase County Historical Sketches
Council Grove on the Santa Fe Trail
Freight, Mail & Immigrant Trail
between Towanda/ Wichita and Fort
Leavenworth
Texas Cattle Trail to Cottonwood Falls via Ark City, Winfield & El Dorado
Cottonwood Falls
Toledo
Saffordville
Hymer
Elmdale
Cedar Point
Mary
Matfield Green
Pike’s Route, Sep. 11-13, 1806
Mormon Wagon Train, about 1850
Kaw TrailSanta Fe Trail
Brandley Stage Stop
Wonsevu
Early Trails Across Chase County
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Strong City
Occupied in 1859
Not yet settled
Clements
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1859 …at that time the largest town in the county (containing six houses and all occupied)
1850s: Climate, Agriculture and Technology
1850 About 75-90 labor-hours required to produce 100 bushels of corn (2-1/2 acres) with walking plow, harrow, and hand planting
1850-70 Expanded market demand for agricultural products brought adoption of improved technology and resulting increases in farm production
1854 Self-governing windmill perfected
1856 2-horse straddle-row cultivator patented
1858 Mason jars, used for home canning, were invented
1858 Corn is selling at Emporia for 20 cents a bushel
1859 W. Harpole has first mowing machine in Chase County
1859 Edwin Drake digs first American oil well near Oil Creek, Pennsylvania.
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1850s: “Firsts” in Chase County, Kansas
1854 First white landowner: Seth Millington Hays, of Council Grove, buys the land at the mouth of Diamond creek for a ranch. William Harris is put in charge of this ranch.
11-28-1854 The first election in Kansas, called by Governor Reeder. The voting place for any chance residents living north of the Cottonwood river is Ingraham Baker’s house near Council Grove, while for the territory south of the river the polling place is Fort Scott.
1855 First Public Land Survey in Chase County
1856 First mail service: The mail for settlers in the Cottonwood valley is thrown from the stages passing over the Santa Fe trail, at the home of C. H. Withington. Joseph Hadley gets it there and brings it down the Neosho valley and up the Cottonwood.
12-5-1857 First white child born in the new community: George Holsinger.
1858 Mrs. Jane Miller settles on South Fork and plants the first apple trees in the county from seeds she brought with her.
1859 First Chase County assessment: total valuation of property was $71,536
3-9-1859 First business opens in Chase County, Lorenzo D. Hinckley’s store in Cottonwood Falls. Hinckley is credited with numerous firsts: first postmaster of Cottonwood Falls and the first mail contractor in this and the counties to the southwest. It was said of him that "he built the first dam across the Cottonwood river; first saw mill in the county; first hotel in the valley; ground the first meal and flour in the Cottonwood valley; carried the first mail to Wichita and Eldorado and as far north as Council Grove.”
3-11-1859 The first meeting of the County Board of Supervisors is held at Cottonwood Falls.
4-1-1859 Seventy-two votes were cast in the first county election.
5-30-1859 First newspaper published in Chase County: The Kansas Press, Volume I, Number 1, Samuel N. Wood, Editor. “The first issue was printed under a cottonwood tree near where the Santa Fe station stands” in Cottonwood Falls.
7-27-1859 Jane Pine sues William Pine for divorce. Their marriage in '57 was the first in this county. Their divorce also will be the first in this county.
8-29-1859 W. Harpole has first mowing machine in Chase county.
11-11-1859 The first tax is levied. It is 7 mills for county purposes and 3 mills for schools.
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Task Partners/Volunteers
Transcribing historic documents • CCHS computer classes• Local volunteers
Scanning photos, maps and documents • CCHS computer classes
Research and reconstruction of historic events for timeline
• CCHS history and English classes• Chase County Historical Society
Identification of persons and locations in old photographs
• Chase County Senior Center• Leader-News
I Remember Chase County When… • CCHS communications classes• Chase County Senior Center
Chase County High SchoolChase County Historical Society
Chase County Senior CenterChase County Leader-News
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For daring to dance the hula in front of Pioneer Bluffs in 1949 and for
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