Broughton Town Site Class Trip April 17

                      Lost Kansas Communities class and Dr. Morgan did field work at Broughton Town Site on a sunny April afternoon. Students had rough maps of the original layout of the town and found evidence of many structures, railway levees, buildings, and sidewalk pieces. Broughton, Clay…

Chapman Center @ the 2012 Great Plains Symposium

Two weeks ago, Chapman Center graduate research assistants Theresa Young and Daron Blake along with the Center’s director, Bonnie Lynn-Sherow, attended the 2012 Great Plains Symposium in Lincoln, Nebraska. The event was entitled “1862-2012: The Making of the Great Plains” and centered on landmark legislations enacted in 1862: The Homestead Act, The Morrill Land-Grant Act,…

Katie Jones in Lyon County

2011-2012 Chapman Intern Katie Jones presented her research on March 13, 2012, to an audience at Lyon County Historical Society in Emporia. Katie is studying languages and has applied this interest to languages spoken by Kansas settlers before 1900. Her talk, titled “The French and Welsh Languages and Settlement in Eastern Kansas,” was of keen…