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This publication promotes the sale of railroad lands held by the Central Branch of the Union Pacific Railroad in the Republican and Solomon Valley's of Kansas from Atchison to Beloit. It includes specific information on counties, towns, settlement and agriculture. It also includes two illustrations, one of water power and improvements, and the other of a church built of limestone, both of Blue Rapids, Marshall County, Kansas.
Creator: Union Pacific Railroad Company
Date: 1878
Item Number: 225979
Call Number: K Port 385 Un3 F229
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 225979
Agriculture - Agricultural methods and practices
Agriculture - Crops
Built Environment - Areas of Significance - Religion
Built Environment - Function - Religion - Religious Facility - Church
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Union Pacific
Business and Industry - Railroad - Land sales
Collections - Library - Railroad Ports (K Port 385)
Date - 1870s - 1878
Environment - Water - Dams
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Advertising Medium - Pamphlet
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Map
Places - Cities and towns - Blue Rapids
Places - Counties - Atchison
Places - Counties - Brown
Places - Counties - Doniphan
Places - Counties - Jackson
Places - Counties - Jefferson
Places - Counties - Leavenworth
Places - Counties - Marshall
Places - Counties - Nemaha
Places - Counties - Pottawatomie
Places - Counties - Riley
Places - Indian reservations - Kickapoo
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Thematic Time Period - Industrialization and the National Economy, 1870 - 1920
Transportation - Railroads - Companies - Union Pacific Railway
Transportation - Railroads - Land sales
Type of Material - Maps
Type of Material - Printed materials - Pamphlets
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