BLOODY BENDERS

Rest Area sign a few miles north of Cherryvale, Kansas on Hwy 169. The Bender's Garden Patch has now grown into a place known as The New Harmony Cemetery. From the rest area go east on Hwy 400 towards Dennis. Turn south on Douglas Road and then turn east again on 2300 the cemetery will on the north side of the road before the bridge.

Hysterical Journey to Historic Places

April 12th 2020
AMUSING FAMILY CONNECTIONS A girl named Laura Ingalls was born in 1867 and grew up on the prairie. One of the first places she lived was on a hard scrabble little farm a few miles southwest of Independence Kansas. Her dad, Charles Ingalls, was a God fearing, and a hardworking man, but by 1871, the locusts, the drought, and the grass fires drove him out. In 1869 a family known locally as ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more

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