In 1869 the name was changed to the Kansas Pacific Railway Company. It had been chartered originally as the Leavenworth, Pawnee and Western Railroad Company. Some of the land adjoining the railroad right-of-way was granted to the Union Pacific Railway Company, Eastern Division. As the railroad was built west from Wyandotte, its route took it through this Kaw valley timber. In late 1864 tracks were laid for the first railroad to Lawrence. Between his home and the river was a large body of timber, oak, walnut, and elm which was referred to as the Delaware Woods. In 1864, a few miles to the northeast of the townsite of Lawrence, within the Delaware Reserve, lived Chief Sarcoxie of the Turtle band. A portion was then deeded to railway companies as part payment for their construction. Treaties concluded by the secretary of interior with the Delaware nation on May 30, 1860, and July 2, 1861, turned some of this land back to the United States government. The first recorded history of the area dates from 1829, when the Delaware Indians were assigned a tract of land in northeast Kansas called the Delaware Reserve. The grove has been the scene of many varied activities - of prayer meetings at five in the morning, of horse racing and gambling, of buffalo and deer grazing peacefully, of tents covering the ground like a city and so many people on the grounds that it was hard to move about. It was a place where old settlers reminisced in the shade of its venerable trees during the 25th and 30th anniversary celebrations of the settlement of Kansas, the locality where shouts and military commands echoed through the trees during sessions of drill by state militia. It is the site of Bismarck Grove, once the scene of innumerable picnics and parties, church encampments and gatherings, some of the greatest fairs in Kansas history, and of temperance meetings to which thousands came to count demon rum out of the state and put Kansas on the map as the first state to have constitutional prohibition.

Grain bins on a small rise, a depression in the middle of an alfalfa field, corn growing east of an ordinary Kansas farm house, cattle-feeding pens next to the railroad track and a few elms at the Lyons street entrance to the farm are the remaining features.īut to those who know, this is not just a farm. The huge red barn, with a green roof and of unusual design, might have caused some wonderment, but by July, 1969, this too had disappeared. To the casual observer in recent years, there was not much to distinguish it from other farms in the Kansas valley. LOCATED on the north bank of the Kansas river about two miles northeast of Lawrence is the Will Hayden-Eugene Nunemaker farm. NOTE: The numbers in brackets refer to endnotes for this text. Transcribed by Tod Roberts digitized with permission of

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