OT-Random Pictures From East Central Kansas

This past Saturday I was all over East Central Kansas coming and going from a plow day near Olpe,KS.....Heres a few pictures taken with a cheap ebay camera.....Lots were taken from the car while moving so the quality isn't the greatest..I was often fighting the sun too..

1-Heading west on Hwy 57 toward Madison,KS..

2-Neat old house in Madison,KS.

3-Old stone school building in Hartford,KS..

4-Church in Hartford,KS..

5-Church in Olpe,KS..

6-Whats left of the school in Dunlap,KS.

7-What the school looked like years ago in Dunlap..

8-Old one room school east of Americas,KS.

9-The old bank in Reading,KS..

10-The old jail in Reading,KS.

11-Church in Reading,KS...It may be new as the town was hit by a tornado
several years ago.

12-The old school in Barclay,KS..

13-Gravel road north of Melvern Lake..50-60 feet wide and like a freeway..

14-15 New wind farm east of Waverly,KS..

16 thru 19-Bean harvest was going strong west of Richmond,KS..Lots of large
fields were waiting to be harvested..Two large JD combines were working here.

20-Large farm west of Richmond,KS..

21-Water tower on the hill at the west edge of Richmond,KS..

22-Grain elevator in Richmond,KS.

23-Old one room school at Selma,KS..

24-Old store building in Bush City,KS..

25-Near dusk heading east for home on Hwy 54 near Uniontown,KS..
It had been a fun day..

Thanks. Nice to see other parts of our great country. Steve

Thanks for the tour.

Ben

My Dad and 'stepmom' lived at Olpe for a while. Sold the place and moved to Cottonwood Falls.Still got family at Cottonwood and Burns.Beautiful country.Would move back in a heartbeat.

Blaine, when ever you post these I am very much reminded of my trips out that direction. Last time was 4 years ago to see my son when he was working for Eyster Harvesting between Goodland and Kanorado

You always do a very good job of capturing Kansas,
Butch

I love the Flint Hills area of Kansas....My parents both came from the Lindsborg,KS area..

1-The farm house that Dad was born at in May 1908...Its 4 miles SW of Falun,KS..

2-The old Mt Hope one room school that my Mom attended many-many years ago located 4 miles east of Lindsborg,KS..My cousins cousin now owns it..It was open until 1964..

"Church" in #11 has star of David on steeple??

"star of David on steeple"

Not unusual to see that on Christian churches. You also frequently see it on barns here in PA.

Cool pictures! KS had some fantastic looking buildings built of red brick or stone!

RIck

Those are awesome pictures. Anytime I travel the USA I try to get away from the interstates as much as I can to see the beautiful old towns like you picture.

I live in Michigan and have covered Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and parts of Pennsylvania. Its amazing how a lot of the architecture is very similar from that era, whether its central Ohio or Kansas.

Rick

Blaine nice picture s i meet u at the red power in Columbia a few yrs ago i live close to a guy u used to pull tractor s against

Looks like you pretty much circled my place.

The church with the star of Davis may well predate the founding of the modern state of Israel and therefore people's association of the star of David with Judiasm. OTH, There is an old synagogue in a city near me probably built before modern Israel and it has the star on the front of it. The congregation outgrew that building and moved to another years ago selling the old one, which has had various occupant since then.

KEH

Thank you very much for the wonderful pictures.
My daughter likes pictures of churches I will those to her.
If I live long enough I am going to retire in Kansas.

I have tons of Kansas church pictures...I'm a Missourian by birth and a Kansan by heart..

Pic 5 looks like church in Piqua Ks. Glad said where were taken so I can go thru them places like I do out on road trips.

as usual, great group of pictures, blaine! thanks for the tour! a young man, that worked for me when he was in high school, is part of a custom harvest crew in western kansas this year.

yes ,, we do like the tour Blaine , wisht I coulda went with ya ., ,, there are fewer folx out in rural Kansas than there were 40 yrs ago ,,.kinda sad to see these strong family communities drying up. and family folx moving way ,,. big equipment and larger farms are the cause ,,. and it is all driven financially , I know the cause but have no solution...?./ . if you ever get to the Louisville area ,, you got to look me up ,,. I will introduce ya to all the who's who in the area and give you the 10 dollar deluxe tour for free ,,.. LOL,,. we will make it an all day event...

Thanks for the pics. You were in my part of KS, Lyon, Osage Co.

Thank you. I think we've lost a great deal when all our new buildngs are almond colored sheet metal.