First downtown store 'linked'

First downtown store 'linked'

Jones, John Tecumseh "Tauy"

King, Joseph Badger

Ottawa, Kansas

Newspaper article by John Mark Lambertson and originally published by The Ottawa Herald March 18, 1989. Article recounts Lambertson's discovery of the location of Tauy Jones' store, the first business in what would become Ottawa, KS.
Newspaper article includes a sketch showing the location of the trading post that existed for several years prior to the founding of the town in 1864.

Lambertson, John Mark

The Ottawa Herald

03/18/1989

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2011.100.44.02

Ottawa, Kansas

1850-1864