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John P. St. John In 1877, as the Mormons began building their church, merchants also began building in the community, and one correspon...

Detail, Mural in St. John Kansas Those who had not chosen to follow Rigdon to Greencastle in 1847 had gradually begun to look to Wil...

Wm Bickerton:  See photo credit below The Mormon group that settled Zion Valley Colony was led by William Bickerton, leader of the deno...

The initiation of having a mural in St. John, Kansas to depict the settling of the region came from  local resident, David Robinson.  As ...

The county seat of St. John, Kansas has a new mural.  This week's blog is the first in a series about that mural.  Most people in the a...

W.W. II pilot and dear friend, Emerson Shields Isaac B. Werner was a teenager during the Civil War and was raised in a Pennsylvania com...

Like many prairie settlers of his generation, Isaac B. Werner had ancestral roots in Germany.  Although his surname was Werner, it was ap...

Carol Long discusses future plans for Studio On June 29, 1871, Isaac B. Werner wrote in his journal:  "During last few weeks I bee...

The 5th Avenue Hotel in later years As a postscript to the previous blog, I am adding this image of the building taken several years la...

When the railroad arrived in St. John, Kansas, new buildings sprung up nearly as fast as hen bit is currently doing in Kansas lawns.  Amo...