Early Winfield 1870 to 1880

This page is an attempt to pull together all of the material on this web page concerning the first decade of Winfield into one place to be a resource to researchers of the area and time.

Main Street

700 Block East Side	800 Block East Side	900 Block East Side
700 Block East Side	800 Block West Side	900 Block West Side
700 Block West Side Lynn & Loose	800 Block West Side Stereo Image	900 Block West Side
700 Block East Side Block Number 128 1871 Original Platt #128 1884 Fire Map #128	800 Block East Side Block Number 129 1871 Original Platt #129 1884 Fire Map #129	900 Block  East Side Block Number 130 1871 Original Platt #130 1884 Fire Map #130
700 Block West Side Block Number 108 1871 Original Platt #108 1884 Fire Map #108	800 Block West Side Block Number 109 1871 Original Platt #109 1884 Fire Map #109	900 Block West Side Block Number 110 1871 Original Platt #110 1884 Fire Map #110
1000 Block West Side Saint James Hotel	Check Drawn on Read's Bank in 1875	Birds Eye View Winfield in 1878

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Additional Resources:

Early History of Winfield from Speech by Wirt Walton on July 4, 1876

Same Wirt Walton Speech (July 4, 1876) in Printable PDF Format, Good Early History.

The Old Log Store, First Building in Winfield, Kansas

The Great Winfield Fire of May, 1880 (Central Hotel, Log Store etc.)

Winfield City Directory 1880

Winfield City Directory 1888

Fire maps of Winfield

Early Newspapers of Cowley County

Interesting Subjects about Cowley County

Old Money of Cowley County

Bricks and other Miscellaneous Topics From the Cowley County Newspapers of the 1870's
People and Families of Cowley County

Outlaws of Cowley County, Kansas

First Train into Winfield, 1879.

Early Conveyances in Cowley County

Transportation in Cowley County

Early Hotels in Winfield

The killing of Sheriff Shenneman in 1883 and the Lynching of his Assassin.

Early Inventions and Inventors in Winfield and Cowley County

Bob Lawrence's Pictures of Winfield

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