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These two types of fire irons or fire place pokers were used to tend a fire at the Grinter Place State Historic Site in Wyandotte County. Grinter Place is a two-story brick home overlooking the Delaware Crossing on the Kansas River, and is now in the National Register of Historic Places, 1971. Moses and Annie Grinter (she was a Lenape Delaware) owned and operated a ferry and trading post there. Now it is an historic site overseen by the Kansas Historical Society.
Date: 1855-1950
Item Number: 449275
Call Number: 14WY316-85 & -86
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 449275
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Objects and Artifacts - Furnishings - Temperature Control Device - Fire Irons
People - American Indians - Tribes - Delaware
Places - Counties - Wyandotte
Places - Historic sites - Grinter Place
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Thematic Time Period - Trails, 1821 - 1880
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