Stone houses abandoned in South East Kansas

                                      PHOTOGRAPHS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE Living in Sedan Kansas give me the unique opportunity to travel the back roads  of Chautauqua county, and surroundings counties looking for old stone houses that have long been abandon and forgotten.

Most of these old stone structures once was a families home, I can't imagine the toil and hard labor one had to endure to construct and maintain these stone houses.

             

This one sets on a small hill over looking the dirt road below.

there are open meadows to the East across the rd.

while I was there, the whitetail deer were grazing in a pasture several hundred yards from me.

Hi up on the hill this old two story stone house 

is crumbling to the ground. 

The old house looks like it was a small mansion in it's time

there were 2 stories and huge well sets in the yard next to the house

Probably hand dug 

The root cellar was huge, constructed like a half dome

everyone of these rocks were hand picked and hand laid to form 

the cellar Look how huge it was.

these cellars served several purposes, protection from the wicked 

Kansas weather, and a place to keep the canned food from the garden.

I am not sure how the people accessed  this house as it sets on a small hill

with no access road leading to the house.

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Kansas Bridges, A collection of old Bridges in South East Kansas

Photographs of Kansas Bridges

My Collection of  Photographs of  Some

of the many old Bridges Located in South Central Kansas

As I travel around this beautiful State of Kansas 

I am always on the look out for old bridges

I really love the stone arch bridges that are scatted around the State

I have noticed the state has started to identify these old bridges 

with signs on the main road ways.

There are several located in Cowley County 

the signs are small signs that read stone arched bridge with an arrow 

pointing in the direction to the bridge.

There is a sign on K-15 South of Dexter, and then another one on highway 160

just East of Winfield Kansas.

I drove to that one a couple of months ago, there was so many weeds growing around it I was 

unable to get any pictures.

I hope you enjoy the bridges 

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