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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUCV_seth-hays-home_Council-Grove-KS.html
Seth M. Hays was a shrewd, colorful, and successful trader, rancher, tavern owner, and publisher.
He built this house in 1867; it was elaborate for Council Grove at that time. Though he was a life-long bachelor, Hays adopted five-year-old Kitti…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUCT_the-cottage-house-hotel-and-motel_Council-Grove-KS.html
Originally a boarding house owned by Reverend and Mrs. Joab Spencer, who added to the 1867 three room cottage shortly after they purchased the property in 1871.
Purchased by Lewis Mead in 1870 and owned and operated by the Mead/Marks family fro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUCQ_masonic-lodge-hall_Council-Grove-KS.html
The Council Grove Lodge and Accepted Masons of Council Grove erected this two-story building of brick made in the local kiln. It was dedicated June 24, 1884.
In 1910 an agreement was made with T. W. Whiting to build an addition with the upper h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUCN_hays-house_Council-Grove-KS.html
Built in 1857 by Seth Hays on the site of the first permanent building (1848) in Council Grove. The original log cabin was also known as the Hays House. Used continuously as a restaurant, this building was also used for church services, court proc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUCD_a-well-furnished-store_Council-Grove-KS.html
"Those who have occassion to stop at Council Grove, on the Santa Fe Road, will do well to 'put up' with Charles A. Gilkey [Hays' hotel clerk]...[?] host of the Hayes House. [They]...cannot but help feeling quite at home.- Kansas Press, July 11, 18…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUBJ_council-grove-national-bank-building_Council-Grove-KS.html
The Council Grove National Bank began August 23, 1878, as the Morris County State Bank of Kansas. It became a national bank in 1900.
An 1886 fire destroyed the bank, then located between the Hays House and this building. Constructed in 1887 at …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUBH_farmers-drovers-bank_Council-Grove-KS.html
Constructed by F. Roussillet, contractor, this building is an electic [sic] style two story brick with limestone Romanesque arches over half round stained glass windows, marble columns and a Bysantine [sic] dome. The adjacent business building was…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUBF_conn-store_Council-Grove-KS.html
"In his stock were found every known variety of goods for use on the frontier, from ox yokes and repairs to cambric needles, from small boxes of pills to barrels of whiskey."- Conn Store Clerk William Shamleffer
For traders on the Santa Fe Trai…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUB6_first-santa-fe-pack-train_Council-Grove-KS.html
In commemoration of thehome coming to Council GroveJune 27 - July 2celebrating theone hundredth anniversaryof the first pack train to passover the Santa Fe Trail,led by Wm. Becknell
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUAL_the-mormon-battalion-at-council-grove-kansas_Council-Grove-KS.html
The Mormon Battalion camped here for five days beginning 27 August 1846. The battalion's more than 500 volunteers and officers had been recruited from the Mormon pioneers (members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) at Council Bluf…