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Title
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Grinter Place
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Description
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Information about the Grinter place, or Grinter house, built in 1857 just north of the Kansas River in Kansas City, Kansas, by Moses Grinter (1809-1878) and his wife Anna Grinter (1820-1905). Illustrations and description of the house and Moses, called the first permanent white settler of Wyandotte County, Kansas, building his first cabin and starting his ferry service about 1831 there.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Exploring the Kaw Valley
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Description
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Book details the Kaw River valley areas and includes a short section on the Grinter House with a photograph. Gives the history of the Grinter family and of the historical significance of the home.
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Date
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2002
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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The Delaware Indians in Kansas--1829-1867
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Description
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Description of the Grinter Ferry (with description of its founder in 1831, Moses Grinter, as "the first permanent resident of the [Wyandotte County, Kansas] locality") also called the Secondine Ferry or the Delaware Agency Crossing, in a discussion about the removal of the Delaware Indians across the Kansas River in 1831.
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Date
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1955-09
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
