Winfield Digital Collections

Winfield, Kansas

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Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Myrtle recalled that her father came to Winfield, KS from Indiana. Her parents met in Winfield, KS. The first school she attended was Webster School.…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Natalina shares the memory of her uncle who sent for her father in Italy to join him in Brazil to work on a coffee plantation. He did and Natalina was…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Paul shared the history of his parents beginning their greenhouse and floral shop. His father built the first greenhouse for his mother in 1917 near…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Ralph shares the history of his father traveling from Chicago, IL in 1872 by covered wagon. He and other family members settled in the Tisdale, KS…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Part 1: Ralph shares the memories of his father and mother who both came from Illinois to settle in Burden, KS. His father worked on the railroad and…
Mary Carttar Hartley
A young girl's reminiscences about growing up in Winfield, Kansas and attending Lowell elementary school in the 1940's. This is also where she met…
Mary Carttar Hartley
Reminiscence of Mary Hartley's 1948 visit to Laura Ingalls Wilder at her home in Mansfield, MO.
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Rosa shared the story of her family history of settling in Lynn, KS to find better farming land. After 15 years in Lynn, they moved near Enid, OK by…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Ross shared memories of when his grandpa Wilkins settled near Grouse Creek and Cambridge in the spring of 1870. His father was 6 years old when they…
Winfield Kansas Oral History Audio Recordings
Sarah shared that her parents came from Glascow, Scotland. They met once they were in America. They came to Winfield, KS because her mother's sister…