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Date
1920
Creation Date
2016
Description
1 photograph; Black and White; Professional shot; the picture is on a paper that states the founders and year Frontenac was founded, the possible history behind the name, and other names the city has had.
Digital Collection
Frontenac, Kansas Historical Photograph Collection
Object Type
Photograph
Transcription
Faces and Places of Crawford County
Frontenac
Founded: 1887
Founder(s): A. A. Robinson, official of the Cherokee-Pittsburg Coal Company who originally started the town.
Name: One possibility is that it was named after Fort Frontenac in Canada.
Other Names: Santa Fe Mine No. 1 in 1886 by the Cherokee-Pittsburg Coal Company.
Menghini Bros. Packing Company. Frontenac--1920. Photo courtesy Debra Menghini.
Identifier
Kansas, Frontenac--History-Menghini Bros 011
Image Format
Still Image
Location
Kansas -- Crawford -- Frontenac
Repository
Special Collections, Leonard H. Axe Library, Pittsburg State University
Publisher Digital
Digital Resource Center, Leonard H. Axe Library, Pittsburg State University
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