Holton’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 3 old photos of Holton. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The party that chose the site of Holton started at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in May 1856. A train of six covered wagons, each drawn by two yoke of oxen, started the long trek to take Free State settlers to Kansas. They were financed by the Kansas Society of Milwaukee which was headed by Edward Dwight Holton, the Milwaukee abolitionist. They met General James H. Lane with two hundred men at Nebraska City, Nebraska, a rendezvous for Free State men. They followed the Jim Lane Road into Kansas approximately thirty miles. They came to Elk Creek, 2+1⁄2 miles west of Holton, where they cut timbers to make a bridge, crossed it and made camp where Central School now stands. They liked the two streams (later named Banner Creek and Elk Creek) and the pleasant grassy hills, so they decided to stay. A company was organized and a civil engineer who was with them commenced the survey. They named the new …
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Holton’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Holton’s history is told.
2 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewPostcard of Main Building at Camp…, 1900: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Holton, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Postcard of Main Building at Campbell College in (1900) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Historic places
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From Wikimedia Commons (4) and the National Register (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.