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This document outlines an agreement between Isaac Goodnow, Agent for Bluemont Central College in Manhattan, Kansas Territory, and Clark Lewis of Pottawattomie County. Lewis was to construct a second College building, an "edifice of stone." The indenture describes in detail the building's specifications, completion date of contruction, and the schedule of payments due to Lewis for his labor and materials.
Creator: Goodnow, Isaac T. (Isaac Tichenor), 1814-1894
Date: April 27, 1859
Item Number: 4079
Call Number: Isaac Goodnow Coll. #357, Box 2 Folder 12
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 4079
Built Environment - Function - Education - School
Built Environment - Materials
Business and Industry - Construction
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Construction
Collections - Manuscript - Goodnow, Isaac
Community Life - Town development
Date - 1854-1860 - 1859
Education - Higher education - Institutions - Bluemont Central College
Home and Family - Daily life - Settlement
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Contract
People - Notable Kansans - Goodnow, Isaac T., 1814-1894
Places - Cities and towns - Manhattan
Places - Counties - Pottawatomie
Places - Counties - Riley
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Legal documents
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/4079
