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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

Austria Indiana

Maryland

Michigan

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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

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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.

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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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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

YOUARE HERE

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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Potential Partnerships

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

PIONEER BLUFFS FOUNDATION

Who cares?NEW CENTURY CLUB OF MATFIELD GREEN,

circa 1938

MaudRogler

NEW CENTURY CLUB OF MATFIELD GREEN,70 years later

DESCENDANTS OF CHARLES ROGLER

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR INTERPRETATION

TOPEKA HIGH SCHOOL LANGUAGE ARTS DEPARTMENT STAFF

A gracious and provocative space in

which visitors can creatively engage with

history, community and place

Posthumous gratitude to Helen Leone Rogler1902-1999

For daring to dance the hula in front of Pioneer Bluffs in 1949 and for

SAVING EVERYTHING

Pioneer Bluffs Today

The mission of the Pioneer Bluffs Foundation is…

... celebrate the history


WORKING FOR WAYNE:

LIFE ON THE RANCH


… and experience of the tallgrass prairie


… and its Flint Hills ranching heritage


… and to revitalize Pioneer Bluffs as a community resource


… and gathering place


… where we explore


… sustainable ways to live in harmony with nature


Ten Year Master Plan

The Future of Pioneer Bluffs