#NEWTON KANSAN HALSTEAD FIKREE SERIES#

Often getting a year’s supply of flour and feed, farmers brought their wheat from as far west as Meade County, Kansas and south to the Oklahoma line. The mill site was a community center due to the park in the nearby woods as well as a meeting point for people from Moundridge, Buhler, Halstead and Burrton. A business of yesteryear that ground flour and feed, Alta Mill was a commercial enterprise situated in Alta Twp of northwest Harvey County.

#NEWTON KANSAN HALSTEAD FIKREE SERIES#

Through on-line exhibits, this slideshow series gives short stories about Harvey County and its cities and provides a sampling of the stories which can be discovered by viewing the on-site exhibits at HCHM, by examining source material in the Research Library and by utilizing the HCHM photo collection.įor even more stories of Harvey County’s people, events and businesses, check out:

The growing, harvesting and milling of wheat helped make Kansas “the breadbasket of the world.” They were in Burrton, Halstead, Hesston, Newton, Sedgwick and Walton. As a result, the county had an abundance of flour mills over the years. In Harvey County, the vast wheat production created new business opportunities in the milling of wheat into flour. Proving to be hardy and of high yield, the use of this variety of wheat spread across Kansas and then to neighboring states. Turkey Red, a variety of hard winter wheat, was introduced during the mid 1870s into the Kansas counties of Butler, Harvey, Marion, McPherson and Reno. Agriculture in Harvey County Stimulated Flour Milling Industry

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