Main Street - Council Grove
After a delicious lunch at the Hays House on Saturday, Dave and I wandered up Main Street in Council Grove. A town with plenty of history intact, it has some fine old buildings downtown.
The door to the Kansas Organic Producers Marketing Office.
There’s still a pay phone here. Pay phones are practically non-existent anymore. You see the stands, but the phones have been removed by the phone company.
Inquire within.
The Farm Bureau building.
Across the street is the old library - now the police department and city hall.
Inside a store window. Wonder what this sign once guarded.
Looking back and across the street.
Filed under: small towns on April 28th, 2008
You’re such a rebel. Taking pictures when they aren’t allowed, shame on you! Cool shot though.
That’s Cheryl. Snap happy.
Council Grove, Barber Shop, Derrick Doty, barber, hosts this monthly jam at 7 p.m. on last Tuesday. (620)767-8316.
http://www.accesskansas.org/kppa/page2_calendar.htm
The Cottage House, which is a block north of main street, is another neat place to see. Have you seen Seth Hay’s house–south of the High School? And, the school for Indian children–Kaw ? maybe? can’t exactly remember–and the hermit cave? and the Last Chance store? I took my multi-age class there on a field trip and we had the best time. A retired teacher jumped onto our bus and talked us all around town, and we did get to go all over the Hays House and Seth’s house and had a presentation at the Kaw reservation and went to see the wonderful cement buildings that the Government build for the Indians–who used them to keep their animals in (and still stayed in their tents we were told). Custer was in Council Grove, too, there’s some kind of memorial/something on the highway going south to Strong City, but it’s still in town.
I was in Council Grove today but the Hays House is CLOSED on Mondays–no strawberry pie!
Because the sign is printed in English, French, Russian, and German, I would guess it came from somewhere near the Berlin Wall or elsewhere in the formerly divided Germany.