1880s Plowing edited 00205139

Published at 740 × 551 in Short Stories of Harvey County, Kansas – A Series of Pictorial Histories – Unit 2 of 8

1880s farming. By 1870, settlers were living in the following townships of Harvey County. In Darlington Twp, there were Doty, Winn, Berry, Marks, Hildreth, Geary, Stockwell, Gingress, Allen, and others. In Halstead Twp, there were Corgan, Cooper, Schoonover, Olson, Miller, and Brewer. There were several families of French and Irish settlers on the Little Arkansas River in Garden Township and at the mouth of Turkey Creek in Alta Township. Photo: Half plate tintype from KS Historical Society collection.