Sterling Digital Collections

Sterling, Kansas

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Charles Haven Photographs
"Rick's Cottage" was one of two hotels located on Broadway in the late 1870's and stood at the present site of The Mosaic Temple. It was opened by…
Charles Haven Photographs
[Written on the front label]
Magoffin Hall, at right, was made from two buildings moved here from Raymond and Atlanta, Kansas by T.C. Magoffin 1876.…
Charles Haven Photographs
Green Mountain House and Fair Lumber were two of Sterling's earliest businesses.
Charles Haven Photographs
The sugar mill, which manufactured sugar from sugar cane, stood on the present site of rodeo grounds. It was destroyed by lighting at the turn of the…
Charles Haven Photographs
The original train depot looking south.
Charles Haven Photographs
[From the front label]
Development of sorghum industry in Sterling included this molasses mill at the corner of 6th and Cleveland. Other sorghum…
Charles Haven Photographs
The little church at Eighth and Main was First United Methodist Church's first meeting house. Methodism in the community dates back to 1871, but it…
Charles Haven Photographs
Early Rice County historians say that in May 1872, when Landis and Hollinger erected the first building on the townsite of Sterling, there were only…
Charles Haven Photographs
Built in 1872, Green Mountain House was Sterling's first hotel. It served as the first home for hundreds of Rice County pioneers and could accommodate…
Charles Haven Photographs
[On front label] A very early locomotive in the Sterling yards. (A Taunton engine.) Notable for the spark arrestor on the smokestack -- to prevent…