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A view of the sod house built on the homestead of Benny Batts, Stanton County, Kansas. On June 17, 1965, the Ulysses News featured the sod house in a story called "The Last Soddie?" According to the article, the house was located three miles north of Johnson City and was built in 1921 or 1922 by Benny Batts, who homesteaded the land about 1907, and William Walker. Buried on a knoll southeast of the "soddie" are James and Lucille Woody, early residents of the area.
Date: 1965
Item Number: 313711
Call Number: FK2.St1 .75 .B *1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 313711
Built Environment - Materials - Earth - Sod
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1960s - 1965
Home and Family - Residences - Sod houses
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Counties - Stanton
Thematic Time Period - The Twenties, 1920 - 1929
Type of Material - Photographs
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