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Title: The People's Railroad: The Leavenworth & Topeka, 1918-1931
Description: Photos, maps, illustrations, and article about "the Leavenworth & Topeka Railroad," operated by local owners ("to prevent abandonment") from 1918 to 1931 between Leavenworth, Kansas and Topeka, Kansas after being being purchased in 1881 by "the Union Pacific and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroads."
Date: 2001
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The ''Missing'' Railroad Towns Along the Union Pacific and the Santa Fe Lines in Kansas
Description: Two major railroad companies laid track across the width of Kansas in the 1860s and 1870s: the Eastern Division of the Union Pacific and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe. Because of the large land grants the railroads received, they could plan out towns primarily east of the Flint Hills. "This article, a look at the overall strategies of these two companies as they build west..." Includes numerous photographs as well as maps and other illustrations.
Date: 2003
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Map of Scotland CO. MO.
Description: Map of Scotland County, Missouri, that includes schools, churches, cemeteries, roads, railroads, and streams. Includes the townships of Miller, Union, Johnson, Vest, Jefferson, Thomson, Mt. Pleasant, Tobin, Sand Hill, and Harrison. Handwriiten notes identify schools and possibly teachers at some schools.
Date: 1910
Object Type: Map

Title: Map of Carroll Co. Mo.
Description: Map of Carroll County, Missouri, including roads, railroads, streams, schools, churches, and cemeteries. Includes city of Carrollton, and townships of Washington, Fairfield, Prairie, Egypt, Cherry Valley, Sugar Tree, Moss, Trotter, Leslie, Hill, Stokes Mound, Van Horn, Carrollton, Wakenda, Eugene, Combs, Ridge, Hurricane, Rock Ford, Dewitt, Miami, and Smith.
Date: 1910
Object Type: Map

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