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Rock Island Company

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Letters, newspaper clippings, photographs of Willard, Kansas

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Call Number: RH MS P250
Overview Items include clippings about a radio program to be made about the Rock Island freight train derailment, November 11, 1935, with consultation by Frank Stone, Jr. Clippings also include items about the wooden bridge, washed away in the 1951 flood and its replacement, the Willard State Bank, the Lynde Brothers general store, and other such news items. The Willard Ferry (granted a license to operate in 1866) is recalled in a letter to a Mrs. Louis. Lydia Rogers of Tucson, who resided in Willard...
Dates: approximately 1866-1955