A rather ambitious undertaking, he said the structure was built with limestone from a quarry on what is now Fort Hays State University property. During the building boom of the 1870s, the county ...

Felten sculpted the train from an old slab of what is called Fencepost Limestone, which is harder and lighter in color than Fort Hays Limestone, so called because it was quarried in the 1870s from ...

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