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Winfield, Kansas

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Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Bob and Bertha Bloomfield shared memories of growing up in the Winfield area. Bertha shared information about the Progressive State Bank. Bob shared…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Dulcie shared memories of the emigration of the Brooks from Tennessee in 1870 and the Hatfields from Kentucky in 1880. Both settled in the Burden…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Part 1 - Etna shared memories of her maternal grandparents who traveled to Cowley County from Kentucky in a covered wagon. Their homestead was a log…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
George Bloomshine shares memories dating back to 1884 of living on a farm in the Winfield area. He also recalls attending the Cowley County Fair.
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Georgia shared the story of her father coming to Cowley County by covered wagon in 1869. At that time the city of Winfield had not be established and…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Gertrude Hankins shares the history of when her family came to Cowley County in 1871 from Ray County in Missouri. They first settled near Grouse…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Hobart shared his memories of the musicians that came to Winfield. In 1907, Frank Mossman, president of Southwestern College, asked his father to…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
John Baird described the building of Byrant School which is now the Cowley County Historical Society Museum and other construction around Winfield,…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
The following musical pieces and readings were performed, Overture Steel Across the Plains, Wind People (Rails End) Coronodos, (Iron horse) Quest for…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Lizzie Fox shared memories of her family living in Douglass, KS dating back from 1896. When she married in 1919 her and her husband moved to…