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Sterling, Kansas

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Charles Haven Photographs
This early photograph of the west side of Broadway was taken at the corner of Main Street. The photo was taken in either 1878 or 1879. One point of…
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
[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
[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
[On front label] A very early locomotive in the Sterling yards. (A Taunton engine.) Notable for the spark arrestor on the smokestack -- to prevent…
Charles Haven Photographs
The "Odd Fellows Building" was built in 1878, for $9,000 by Judge Ansel Clark, attorney and legislator, who for many years had his office in the…
Charles Haven Photographs
This photograph shows a crew harvesting broom corn. Sterling gained national attention as a "Broomcorn Capital," shipping trainloads of brush to New…
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
One of the earliest pictures of Sterling taken in 1875 or 1876.
Charles Haven Photographs
One of the five sod shanty houses that were in a ten mile radius of Sterling before the railroad.