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A two-thousand dollar insurance policy backed by the Phoenix Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut issued to the Golden Belt Town Company. The policy covered a two-story, chingled-roof hotel located in the town of Lincolnville in Marion County, Kansas. The Golden Belt Town Company was chartered by the Kansas Town and Land Company to buy and sell land on the right of way of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway in south central Kansas.
Creator: Phoenix Insurance Company
Date: November 23, 1887
Item Number: 307428
Call Number: Kansas Town & Land Company Coll. #130, Oversize, Folder 2
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 307428
Built Environment - Function - Domestic - hotel-don't use
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska Railway
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Business and Industry - Railroad - Land sales
Collections - Manuscript - Kansas Town and Land Company
Community Life - Town development - Town companies
Date - 1880s - 1887
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Insurance policy
Places - Cities and towns - Lincolnville
Places - Counties - Marion
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Transportation - Railroads - Companies - Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska Railway
Transportation - Railroads - Companies - Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Transportation - Railroads - Land sales
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Legal documents
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/307428
