These books are packed with images and stories about the history in this area. They are perfect for research or just a good read.
Salina got its name from the Saline River that flows north of town. Its founders were a close-knit group of Scotsmen related by blood or marriage; most came to America from southwestern Scotland between 1839 and 1854 and settled in Randolph County, Illinois. Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune sent correspondent William A. Phillips from Randolph County to Lawrence, Kansas, to cover the turmoil caused by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 and the doctrine of popular sovereignty. The residents of Kansas were to choose whether the territory would come into the Union as a slaveholding or free-soil state. To affect that outcome, both Southerners and Northern abolitionists sent colonies of settlers to Kansas Territory. Out of this conflict was born the Salina Town Company. William A. Philips, his brother David, his sister Christina, and his brothers-in-law Alexander C. Spilman and Alexander M. Campbell, along with close friend James Muir, preempted a 320-acre town site in north central Kansas in 1858. From humble beginnings grew the largest commercial center in the area: Salina.
About the Author:
The Salina Public Library gave Mary Clement Douglass permission to use the photographs from its collection for this work. Mary Douglass studied the history of Salina for over 40 years as the city's architectural historian and museum curator.
Book Details
ISBN: 9781467110037
FORMAT: Paperback
PUBLISHER: Arcadia Publishing
DATE: 7/29/2013
STATE: Kansas
SERIES: Images of America
IMAGES: 228
PAGES: 128
DIMENSIONS: 6.5 (w) x 9.25 (h)
