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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H87_prairie-flower-garden_Everest-KS.html
The Hutchison family's roots run deep in Kansas. Both Ted and Betty were born near Huron, Kansas where their parents and grandparents lived before them. Ted and Betty married in 1938 and after farming east of Everest during the early 1940's, they …
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Thomas Corwin Honnell
Ohio Vol Infantry
Captain Civil War 1861-1865
Elmer Martin Larson
US Navy - WWI
Seaman - USS Delaware
DIA 10 8 [19]18
Hampton Roads, Va
Levin Joseph Gearhart
US Army Air Corps
Sergeant - WWII
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H7M_everest-125th-anniversary_Everest-KS.html
125 years ago Everest was established when Edwin Sandison acquired a tract of land along the new Missouri Pacific Railroad right-of-way. The town was named after Col. Aaron S. Everest who projected the railroad extension connecting Atchison and Om…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H6W_camp-pond-creek-fort-wallace-on-the-bod_Everest-KS.html
In 1865 David Butterfield opened the 592-mile long Smoky Hill route from Atchison, Kansas to Denver, Colorado. His new line cut nearly tow days from the Platte River route used by most freighters. The first wagon train along Butterfield's route le…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H6V_fort-wallace_Everest-KS.html
First called Camp Pond Creek, Fort Wallace was established in 1865. The fort served as the headquarters for troops given the task of protecting travelers headed west along the Smoky Hill Trail to the Denver gold fields. Fort Wallace was the wester…
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Thomas Corwin Honnell
1840 - 1919
1840 - Born in Shelby County, Ohio
1857 - Teacher in Ohio Schools
1861 - Captain in the Union Army
Injured at Chic[k]amauga
Shook President Lincoln's Hand
1870 - Bought a 160 Acre Farm Two Miles Southeast of Ever…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H6T_the-three-amigos-tree_Everest-KS.html
Don Nigus - ERHS '58
Reuben Sullivan - ERHS '65
Bob Edwardson - ERHS '60
In a "loco" mood they rambled down Main Street and into the pool hall, inciting a grass roots movement that gave birth to the Everest Community Park & Honor Garden restorati…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H6R_school-bell-1886_Everest-KS.html
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H6J_the-founders-of-everest_Everest-KS.html
Erected in memory
of
the Founders of Everest