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These five butter pats were recovered from Grinter Place State Historic Site in Wyandotte County. Butter pats are often mistaken for children's toy dishes, but they are meant to hold individual servings of butter. These were made by Haviland and Co., of Limoges, France. Grinter House is a two-story brick home overlooking the Delaware Crossing on the Kansas River, and is in the National Register of Historic Places. Moses and Annie Grinter (she was a Lenape Delaware) owned and operated a ferry and trading post there. Grinter Place was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
Date: 1855-1950
Item Number: 448229
Call Number: 14WY316-68 through -72
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 448229
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
Collections - Archeology
Home and Family - Daily life - Food and Cooking - Meal preparation
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
People - American Indians - Tribes - Delaware
People - European Americans
Places - Counties - Wyandotte
Places - Historic sites - Grinter Place
Places - Rivers - Kansas
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Transportation - Water - Ferries
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