Community development doesn’t always mean “new,” Emily Cowan, president of the Abandoned Atlas Foundation, told a group at the Allen County Historical Society’s spring meeting Tuesday evening at the Iola Public Library. “That’s a mindset…

Emily Cowan, founder of the Abandoned Kansas and Missouri branches of the Abandoned Atlas Foundation, recalls seeing her first abandoned place. The Skedee school in Oklahoma had been closed for 50 years, so Cowan was…

HUMBOLDT — The Osage tribe served a vital role as a sort of “military buffer” during the Civil War, particularly in Kansas. Isaiah McCaffery, a history professor at Independence Community College, told the story of…

Allen County Historical Society director Kurtis Russell attended the 125th anniversary of the Philippine American War event hosted by the Gen. Douglas MacArthur Memorial on Saturday, Feb. 3, in Norfolk, Va. He was invited by…

Local residents can learn about the history of the Osage during the Civil War during a program Saturday in Humboldt.  The Allen County Historical Society is bringing “Last Stand at Rebel Creek: The Osage as…

The Osage Mission-Neosho Co. Museum received $3,000 in grant funding from Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area. The award will help fund the SEK Museum’s passport, a project that includes  18 Freedom’s Frontier Partners, including the…

LAHARPE — Time capsules almost never survive the ravages of time, noted Kurtis Russell, director of the Allen County Historical Society.  That proved to be the case when a metal box was found underneath the…

Retired Allen Community College president John Masterson will talk about the college’s history at the Allen County Historical Society’s annual business meeting on Monday at the Stadler Room at ACC. The business meeting will begin…

The Iola Municipal Band will be featured on an episode of “Positively Kansas” at 8 p.m. Friday on Wichita’s PBS Station, KPTS Channel 8. Chris Frank, a senior producer for PBS, was in Iola over…

The works of Gary Hawk will be the focus of Sunday’s Allen County Historical Society meeting. Debbie Smail, the late Iola artist’s daughter, will lead the 3 p.m. program at the Frederick Funston Meeting Hall…