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Ottawa 150: A celebration for the ages By Doug Carder Herald Senior Writer
play.” “Witness for the Prosecution” performances are set for 7:30 p.m. Friday, 1:30 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday at the courthouse. The performances are expected to last about two hours. Franklin County will play host to an ice cream social at noon Saturday on the courthouse grounds before the play’s performance that day. For those who cannot attend the play during the 150th birthday celebration, Act Ottawa also will perform the play the following weekend at 7 p.m. Sept. 12, 7 p.m. Sept. 13 and 3 p.m. Sept. 14 at the courthouse.
Abraham Lincoln, who was president when Ottawa became a community. I think they are planning to do prizes for best-dressed, fastest and other categories. I think it’s really neat that ORC is putting the 5K on — it’s a one-of-a-kind event tied to the sesquicentennial.” Other events Saturday include:
• Kids art activities, 9:30 a.m. to noon, Edward E. Haley Community Park, 201 S. Main St. • Free exhibit about the birth of Ottawa, Old Depot Museum, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 135 W. Tecumseh St. • Ottawa 150 Video, multiple showings starting at 10 a.m., Plaza
A community picnic complete with birthday cake awaits Ottawa residents who congregate 5:30 p.m. Saturday at Forest Park, 320 N. Locust. St., for the community’s 150th birthday — or “sesquicentennial” — celebration. But that’s only the icing • Walking/Kiosk Tours, 9:30 a.m. on the birthday cake. to 10:30 a.m. in downtown Ottawa. See SCHEDULE, Page 6 The three-day celebration begins 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday with an artists’ reception, “Discovering Our Roots,” at the Carnegie Cultural Center and will include more than two dozen activities and events Saturday, starting with a 5K run at 8 a.m. and 123 concluding W Street City, atST 12345 - 123-456-7890 - www.agencyinfo.com with fireworks sunset. Sunday’s activities include a museum exhibit and a play. Ottawa Recreation Commission plans to sponsor a 5K run titled “Ottawa: Through the Years,” starting at 8 a.m. at Forest Park. “The ORC 5K run Saturday morn Two Native American artists will ing should be a lot of fun,” Sharp said. be the focal point of the “Discovering “It’s a dress-up 5K, and some runners Our Roots” art exhibit 5:30 p.m. to 7 have been encouraged to dress like p.m. Sept. 5 at the Carnegie Cultural Center, 501 S. Main St. “We wanted to tie in the Native American aspect of the city’s origin, and this was an ideal way to do that with the Ottawa Community 123 W Street - City, ST 12345 - 123-456-7890 - www.agencyinfo.com Arts Council,” Jeanny Sharp, The Call David Vague & Rhonda Brown today to schedule an appointment. 123 W Street - City, ST 12345 - 123-456-7890 - www.agencyinfo.com Herald’s editor and publisher and Discounted FarmSesquicentenRates for Autos chair of the Ottawa 123 W Street - City, ST 12345 - 123-456-7890 - www.agencyinfo.com Uncover the hidden (applied to any vehicle garaged on the farm) nial Committee, said. savings when you Uncover the hidden The display, which will include package your you auto armowner Farm and Auto Packaged Credit savings when other exhibitors as well, is to be insurance withauto your package your showcased Cause with a public reception i Common of Loss Deductible farmowner insurance withpolicy! your uto to thank sponsors. Hors d’oeuvres farmowner policy! Loyalty Credits will be served, Sharp said. Exhibiackage Congratulations Ottawa! tors also will have artwork for sale. Multi-Car Discounts Discounted Farm Rates for Autos Celebrating 150 years Following the reception, Act Ot(applied to any vehicle on the farm) Discounted Farmgaraged Rates for Autos Auto Enhancement Coverage (applied to any Packaged vehicle garaged on the farm) Farm and Auto Credit tawa performers plan to stage the of building business Farm and Auto Credit Common Cause ofPackaged Loss Deductible Discounted Farm Rates for Autos Agatha Christie courtroom thriller, and community. Common Cause of Loss Deductible Loyalty Credits (applied to any vehicle garaged on the farm) “Witness for the Prosecution” in the LoyaltyDiscounts Credits Multi-Car The Ottawa Chamber has been a Multi-Car Discounts Farm and Auto Packaged Credit Auto Enhancement Coverage courtroom of the historic Franklin Auto Enhancement Coverage continuous organization for 115 years Common Cause of Loss Deductible County Courthouse, 315 S. Main St., always working for business & industry Loyalty Credits Ottawa. BUCKEYE and the betterment of our community. BUCKEYE Discounts Multi-Car “Act Ottawa is going to perform INSURANCE INSURANCE Auto Enhancement Coverage ‘Witness for the Prosecution’ over GROUP ® FARM HOME AUTO GROUP Insuring the Heartland since FARM HOME AUTO two weekends at the Franklin CounInsuring the Heartland® since1879. 1879. ty Courthouse,” Sharp said. “Their FARM HOME AUTO last live performance in the court- the Heartland®since 1879. BUCKEYE Insuring room was ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ INSURANCE and it was well received, and this Ottawa Area Chamber of Commerce time it will have central air [thanks GROUP 109 E. 2nd Street, Ottawa, Kansas 66067 FAR Insuring the Heartland®since 1879. to recent courthouse renovations]. (785) 242-1000 I’m looking forward to seeing the www.ottawakansas.org
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SCHEDULE: Play, sulky horse reenactments scheduled for Saturday (Continued from Page 5) • Ice cream social, noon, Franklin County Courthouse lawn. • Dedication of the Buffalo Woman Statue, 1 p.m., Franklin County Courthouse lawn. A female descendant of the Ottawa Indian tribe will be in the Tribe’s native dress for the statue dedication. Also as part of the celebration, Sharp said, people can receive a free temporary tattoo of the Ottawa Tribe’s beadwork used for the celebration. The tattoo also features #Ottawa150, Sharp said, and can be worn as an arm band. • Bouncy House in the shape of a birthday cake will be available for kids to enjoy from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Forest Park. • “Witness for the Prosecution,” 1:30 p.m., Franklin County Courthouse. • Ottawa 150/Cinema History Videos, 1:30 p.m., Plaza Cinema. • Ottawa 150 booth, 2 p.m. to 7 p.m., southeast shelter at Forest
Park. • Classic car cruise-in and display, 2 p.m. to 8 p.m., Forest Park. • Power of the Past tractor display, 2 p.m. to 7 p.m., Forest Park. • Round-robin horseshoe tournament, 2 p.m., Forest Park. • Historic trolley tours, 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Forest Park. • Old-time games and Healthy Living station, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., Forest Park. • Vendors, 3 p.m. to 8 p.m., Forest Park. • Sulky horse race reenactments, 4 p.m. to 5 p.m., Forest Park. “I’ve never seen a sulky horse race live, and I know [organizer] Peach Madl has an announcer planned with all the original hype and a winner’s circle,” Sharp said. “It should be a lot of fun and reflective of a time when sulky horse races were popular.” • Dog agility demonstrations, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., the Bark Park at Forest Park. • Ceremonial mulch throwing and tree planting, 4:30 p.m., east
side of Forest Park. “Forest Park is home to Kansas’ largest Swamp Oak tree, and a new Swamp Oak tree is to be ‘planted’ in the canopy of that tree on the east side of the park,” Sharp said. • Wagon rides, 5 p.m. to 6 p.m., Forest Park. • Community photo, 5 p.m., Forest Park main gate. “Locust Street will be closed off in front of the park for the community photo,” Sharp said. “It will be a landscape portrait by Ottawa photographer Ron Clevenger. The community portrait should be a lot of fun. We’ll be putting it on social media so people can either have it emailed to them or tag themselves in the photo. We’ll be doing some things on Instagram.” Follow the celebration on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus at #Ottawa150, #Sesquicentennial, and #yournewsyourway. • Free community picnic and birthday cake to the first 1,000 attendees, 5:30 p.m,, Forest Park. “Arvest Bank is providing all the food, and the birthday cake is com-
ing from Queen’s Price Chopper,” Sharp said. “COF participants will be serving the food that day. We’ll be singing happy birthday. There’s also going to be a bouncy house in the shape of a birthday cake that will be free for the kids to enjoy.” • A Poetry Slam and musical entertainment headlined by the Ottawa City Band, 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Forest Park. The city band plans to play a lot of patriotic favorites, as well as “Home on the Range” and a popular song from the Civil War, which was taking place when the City of Ottawa was established. • Autographs with Sesquicentennial poster artist Matt Gifford, 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., Ottawa 150 booth, Forest Park. • Skydiving demonstration, 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., weather permitting, Forest Park. • Fireworks at sunset, about 7:45 p.m., Forest Park. If inclement weather strikes, the picnic, Ottawa City Band perforSee EVENTS, Page 7
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EVENTS: More plans for Sunday (Continued from Page 6) mance and some other activities will be moved to the Ottawa Municipal Auditorium, 301 S. Hickory St., Ottawa.
SUNDAY • Free exhibit, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., Old Depot Museum. • “Witness for the Prosecution,” 3 p.m., Franklin County Courthouse. A host of volunteers still are needed to help with traffic control
and a variety of events at the park, Sharp said. People who would like to volunteer to help with the event may contact Jodie Garcia, (785) 242-4700 at the Ottawa Herald. Sesquicentennial coins and posters also will be available for sale throughout the three-day celebration, Sharp said. The community will be brimming with visitors for other activities as well this weekend, including the Ottawa University vs. Baker University football game Saturday night at OU, 1001 S. Cedar St., Ottawa. “It should be a great weekend in town,” Sharp said.
Settler-Indian land deal set stage for modern era By DOUG CARDER Herald Senior Writer
Time to warm up the singing voices and get the birthday gifts ready. Ottawa will celebrate the 150th anniversary of its birth Friday through Sunday. The bulk of the three-day celebration will take place Saturday, including a community photo, free community picnic with birthday cake, a performance by the Ottawa City Band and dozens of other activities at Forest Park, 320 N. Locust St., Ottawa. “Like many other towns in the Midwest and West, Ottawa was founded by a town company, which was a private organization — not a municipality,” Deborah Barker, executive director of the Franklin County Historical Society, said. “The town company was composed of several men that were connected to the Ottawa Indians.” The city’s charter was signed Sept. 6, 1864, according to Franklin County Historical Society records. While many towns in the area were established in the mid-1850s, Barker said, Ottawa got its start a decade later because a private town could not be built on the tribal reserve at that time. “It was still illegal to build on that land, and the Ottawas would not be removed [to Oklahoma] for several years yet, so [the town company] had to work out a deal with the Ottawas,”
Barker said. “Many of the towns in this part of the country were founded in 1854. This one was really late because there were so many tribes here and the bureaucracy involved in getting them relocated.”
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TOWN FOUNDERS Members of the town company — led by Isaac Kalloch, who later would become mayor of San Francisco — negotiated an agreement with the Ottawas, which were led at the time by John Tecumseh Jones, an educated half-blood Chippewa who joined the Ottawa tribe and later was adopted by them, according to an article cowritten by Barker on the Franklin County History Portal website, www.franklincoks.org “[Jones] became [the Ottawas’] leader, their minister and their storekeeper, besides operating the only hotel in the county, on this site,” Barker wrote in the article. “Jones became known as ‘Ottaway’ or ‘Tauy’ Jones because of his central role in tribal affairs. The creek’s nickname of Tauy also refers to the Ottawas.” Jones, who was educated at Columbia College in Washington, D.C. and Madison University [now Colgate] in upstate New York, was a bright individual and skilled negotiator who was well-versed in dealing with the “white man’s ways,” Barker said. “Negotiations started between the Ottawas and the town company, and it was going to be a win-win situation,” Barker said. “If the Indians would give them the acreage for the town site, the [town company] agreed to build a school for the Indians, which would be Ottawa University. “Asa Althrop [town company secretary], Tauy Jones and Isaac Kalloch were the main operators, though there were some others involved [in establishing the town site],” Barker said.
OTTAWA IS BORN By fall 1864, the paperwork was completed and the town company started to mark off the town site and lay out the streets. The original town boundaries were Logan, Cherry, Seventh and Ash streets,
according to an article written by John Mark Lambertson, former director of the Franklin County Historical Society. The town company negotiated with the tribe for the transfer of deed for 20,000 acres of the reserve, according to Lambertson’s article. The agreement allowed the area around present-day Ottawa to be opened for settlement, Barker said, which grew after the Civil War ended the following year in 1865 and settlers and soldiers looked for new opportunities. The founding of Ottawa did not come without some strife, Barker said. “It was very complex,” Barker said. “The Ottawas were like every tribe — you had your traditionalists and your progressives. The progressives knew they would have to learn to live in a white man’s world and they might as well just get educated and learn to farm and deal with it. The traditionalists wanted to maintain their own language and lifestyles ... the traditionalists were always convinced that the progressives had sold them out.” Though the school’s original board members consisted of Indians and white men, the conflict among tribal members was magnified by the fact many Ottawas were “very unhappy at the scale of the school building that Ottawa University was building,” Barker said. “They thought it was way, way bigger than anything they thought they needed, and it became crystal clear to them that while Indians might be allowed to attend this school, it wasn’t exactly what it was being built for.” Varying viewpoints about the negotiations between the town company and the Ottawas have been documented, Barker said. “The white men knew the Indians would be gone, whether or not the Indians did,” Barker said. “They knew Ottawa was a good site for a town, with a good river crossing. There was not a lot of opposition to moving the county seat from Ohio City, a town that doesn’t exist anymore that was northeast See ORIGINS, Page 10
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“The locals called it the Lazy, Lousy and Greasy,” Barker said, laughing. The railroad arrived in Ottawa on New Year’s Day 1868, Barker said, firmly entrenching the early success of the town as a county seat, railway stop and agriculture center. The city of Ottawa, which incorporated as a municipality in 1866, would not have been established on the Ottawa reserve without the relationship developed between the town company and the Ottawas and the fact Tauy Jones wanted a school, Barker said. Photo courtesy of the Franklin County Historical Society “The Indians were excited to have a school, and the town A historic Ottawa photo shows the corner of Second and Main streets in downcompany was excited to have a town Ottawa circa 1868. The city, which is marking the 150th anniversary of its town,” she said. charter this weekend, was established on the Ottawa Tribe’s former land.
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Discovering Our Roots: Native American Art Exhibit By DOUG CARDER Herald Senior Writer
The Ottawa Community Arts Council will help kick off Ottawa’s Sesquicentennial celebration this Friday at the Carnegie Cultural Center. The Discovering Our Roots: Native American Art Exhibit will feature art from two regional Native American Artists — Randy Endicott and Chief Standing Cloud. Their artwork is heavily inspired by their heritage and utilizes symbolism to give viewers a glimpse of times past. These images are sure to immerse the viewer in the rich culture of our hometown. Randy Endicott, a member of the Ojibway tribe, creates realistic Native American paintings full of inspiration and meaning. Chief Standing Cloud, of the Sioux tribe, paints with bright color and deep symbolism to relate his experiences through visual narratives. The Ottawa Herald in conjunction with the Ottawa Community Arts Council will be sponsoring an artist’s reception 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.. Friday at the Carnegie Cultural Center, 501 S. Main St., Ottawa. The reception is open to the public and packed full of Native American inspired activi-
ties and events that area residents will not want to miss. Shortly after 5 p.m., Chief Standing Cloud will do a “Smudging” ritual to bless the art reception and the public is encouraged to come and participate. Throughout the evening, each artist will be giving a 30-minute talk on his artwork. During the art reception, there also will be children’s activities in the basement from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. for children ages 5 to 12. Storyteller Jim Stigall will be delighting children with his Native American inspired tales. Children also can participate in a Native American inspired art activity and create their own wampum belt designs to take home. Check the art council’s website www.OttawaArtsCouncil.org for more details about this event. While at the center, the public is encouraged to check out the gift shop which frequently features rotating displays to provide patrons with a fresh presentation of available artwork each time they come in. Also visit the center during gallery hours noon to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Friday. Admission is free. The art council has a multitude of things going on in the building, from art exhibits to art classes.
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LEFT: An unidentified man advertises a speaking engagement on communism by Ed Wiltse during the fall of 1961 in downtown Ottawa. A Nov. 21, 1961, Herald article, titled “What’s With This Man Ed Wiltse?” said about 1,500 people came to hear the Paola postmaster speak on communism at Municipal Auditorium, now Ottawa Municipal Auditorium, 301 S. Hickory St. Wiltse’s earlier talks in Ottawa on Americanism and Communism “had touched off a round of debate in The Herald’s letters column,” the article said. It was a hot topic considering it was nearing the height of the Cold War with the Cuban Missile Crisis less than a year later in October 1962. The historical photo used is from the J.B. Muecke Collection, housed at Franklin County Historical Society’s Records and Research Center, 1124 W. Seventh St. Terrace, Ottawa.
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Colorful past captured in Ottawa 150 poster
By DYLAN LYSEN Herald Staff Writer
Matt Gifford hasn’t lived in Ottawa
since 2005, but he might understand the history of the city better than most people. “I feel like I have learned the courthouse and its architecture better than I ever have all those years growing up,” he said. Gifford, a 26-year-old freelance artist who now lives in Nashville, Tennessee, crafted a poster design to represent the history of the City of Ottawa for its 150th birthday. The poster is part of the celebration of the city’s landmark anniversary, Jeanny Sharp, Herald editor and publisher and who is chairing a steering committee organizing the community celebration, said. The limited edition poster will be on sale for $25 soon, Sharp said. They can be ordered at The Herald and on the Ottawa sesquicentennial website, ottawa150.com The poster consists of 19 historic and iconic images that make up the history of Ottawa, including the Franklin County Courthouse and Tauy Jones Hall at Ottawa University, among others. Gifford was commissioned for the project after Sharp remembered him as one of the artists who submitted designs for the mural at Edward E. Haley Community Park, Second and Main streets, Ottawa. Gifford signed on, crafting the poster to include 15 historical images Sharp and Deb Barker, Franklin County Historical Society director, thought best represented the city. Gifford still had latitude to add his own twist to the piece, such as the inclusion of an image of The Star Laundry heating boiler that exploded Dec. 27, 1912, from 120 N. Main St. and launched across a block and a half of Main Street. “The result is kind of a whimsical art poster,” Sharp said. “I think he’s done kind of an interesting job putting the facts of the [historical] elements in a frame. Some of them are further back in history than others, like the [heating boiler] that blew up. That’s just kind of fun. That didn’t have to be there; he just liked that element.” Other imagery used for the poster includes Giego, the Ottawa University mascot who only is portrayed by a member of the Ottawa Tribe, she said. “We wanted to have that because OU is celebrating its 150th year soon as well,” Sharp said. Sharp also enjoyed Gifford’s portrayal of “moving history” with a train
representing Ottawa’s history with the railroad and old-fashioned cars representing the Ol’ Marais River Run and Car Show. “I really enjoy that he married up some of the essential transportation elements and evolution through the years,” Sharp said. “He has the vehicles from the car show, and he also has the train, as an important of Ottawa’s development was the train.” Gifford was raised in Ottawa and graduated from Ottawa High School in 2005. He then attended the University of Kansas and eventually made his way to Nashville where he has become a freelance artist, he said. “It feels wonderful to contribute something back to my home town,” Gifford said of the poster project. “It made me appreciate the city much more because it’s allowed me to learn a lot about it, and it’s very easy to take where you grew up for granted and move on and forget it. Upon reading a lot about Ottawa’s history for inspiration and looking at historical photos you learn a lot of cool things happened there.” Crafting the poster allowed him to reconnect to his hometown, he said. “You can’t help but remember when you go over these locations and images,” he said. “You learn it very intimately.” Poster by Matt Gifford
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Tile beadwork pieces together city’s past By DYLAN LYSEN Herald Staff Writer
The rising sun outlined the Franklin County Courthouse and illuminated the eastern sky as Dick Crooks worked in the courthouse’s shadow. The air was cool on the mid-June early morning. By 7:30 a.m., Crooks had been at work for two hours and was on his hands and knees cutting polished porcelain to fit perfectly around the hexagonal base that holds vegetation and the Buffalo Woman statue in front of the courthouse, 315 S. Main St., Ottawa. The manual labor made his hands dirty and his forehead bead with sweat. It’s the kind of work Crooks does for a living, but this week, he did it for free. “I hadn’t really done anything for the city, and I decided to do something for them,” Crooks said. Crooks, owner of Crooks Floor Covering, 636 N. Main St., Ottawa, had worked all week to place mosaic beadwork tile around the statue, which was selected to serve as a landmark for Ottawa’s 150th birthday — or sesquicentennial this year. The beadwork represents the Ottawa Indian tribe for which the city was named, and which originally dedicated the statue Oct. 7, 1989, to celebrate the city’s 125th anniversary. Crooks was happy to install the tiled beadwork, he said, but he decided to put in a little extra design to the
project. Along with the tiles, Crooks installed gray polished porcelain to improve the base of the statue’s look. “I thought if I was going to [place the tiles], this would have to be done too,” he said. “After seeing how they were going to look, and how [the base] was going to look, I decided I was going to do it all.” Crooks has lived in Ottawa since 1966, he said, and opened his business in 1975. Through all those years, Crooks had seen the city grow to what it is today, he said. When organizers of Ottawa’s 150th celebration approached him about working on the beadwork project, he thought it would be a good opportunity to give back. “They asked how much it was going to cost, and I just told them, ‘I’ll just donate it,’” Crooks said. “For many years that I’ve been here, I’ve never done anything as far as donating anything. And I think this is a good cause.” The project has cost Crooks about $1,400 so far, he said. “Everything I do is so rewarding, to do something like this,” Crooks said. “It’s the same way with my work. When I go out to do a job, it’s not just to go and do that job, it’s rewarding to see what you do and to change from what it was to what it is.” After those early mornings installing the pieces to craft the mosaic, Crooks packed up about 8 a.m. and headed off to work. See STATUE, Page 19
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STATUE: ‘A tremendous enhancement to an already important historical element’ (Continued from Page 17) “My name is going to be on one of those tiles,” Crooks said. “After I’m gone it will be there for my family and their kids.”
WORK OF ART For Ottawa’s 150th celebration this weekend, Jeanny Sharp, Herald editor and publisher and head of a steering committee organizing the community celebration, wanted to tie everything together with the artistic beadwork project. The idea was to place the beadwork along with a replica of the original Ottawa Town Company seal placed on the base of the statue. “I think it’s a tremendous enhancement to an already important historical element,” Sharp said of the Buffalo Woman piece. “I’m especially happy it comes during the SWAN Arts Festival so we have a live work of art happening.” The beadwork consists of iconic Native American colors: turquoise, pink and green, among others. “The colors were really impor-
tant for this because the Ottawa Tribe had pastel colors that other tribes didn’t have,” Sharp said. “I think there is a noticeable absence of Native American acknowledgement and recognition in Ottawa.” Deborah Barker, Franklin County Historical Society director, suggested using the beadwork from the Ottawa Tribe with the Buffalo Woman statue. She sent an idea for the design to Sharp, which then was recreated and embellished by The Herald’s Graphic Designer JT Kent. Ottawa Herald Business Manager Kathy Miller then approached Crooks for his portion of the project. It was a welcomed addition, Barker said. When the Buffalo Women statue was erected in 1989, she said, she thought something was missing. “I had always hoped that we could tile the base for the Buffalo Women statue with some kind of [Native American] tile,” Barker said. “It seemed like the base was unfinished and this seemed like a very nice idea.” Although the historical society knows the beadwork was used by the Ottawa Tribe, Barker said she’s not exactly sure of the beadwork’s pur-
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Roots run deep for aging tree thought to be Ottawa’s oldest By ABBY ECKEL Herald Staff Writer
The City of Ottawa’s oldest known living tree has seen its fair share of changes, Deb Barker said. A tree planted by Theodore Sears is thought to have been rooted in the community since the 1860s, Barker, Franklin County Historical Society director, said. The tree, a bald cypress, was planted behind the house where Sears lived at 321 W. Third St., Ottawa, she said. The area where the tree is now located is owned by Jimmie Rex and Betty Bauer, whose address is 221 S. Elm St. Sears was a well-known railroad man at the time the tree was planted and served as a power player in the Franklin County community, Barker said. “[Sears] was the general superintendent of the southern district of the western line,” Barker said. “Being the general superintendent of the southern district means Santa Fe railroads. The railroads were a big thing back then, so he was very influential.” Since Sears had some authority in the Katy railroad (Kansas, Missouri, Texas), Barker said, Sears and other Franklin Countians had hopes the Katy railroad would find its way to Ottawa. “[Sears] thought, and others thought, that Katy would come through Franklin County, but it didn’t and it was kind of a scandal,” she said. “They thought because a general council member was living here that it would bring more railroad traffic to Franklin County, but it avoided Franklin County carefully and went up to Topeka from Osage County.” The Bennetts were the next family to live where the tree was planted, Barker said, another family that had deep roots and an impact on the county. “The Bennetts lived there and they owned Bennett Creamery, which was the largest employer in Ottawa for a long time in the 20th century,” she said. “It was a creamery that bought milk from farmers and processed it into Bennett ice cream. They were very well known.”
Some of the Bennetts’ business relics live on in one of the rooms at the Old Depot Museum, 135 W. Tecumseh St., Ottawa, Barker said. “The soda fountain in the depot has pieces of the Bennett memorabilia,” Barker said. “They made ice cream mix for Dairy Queens in Kansas and Missouri. They also ran Peoples Bank for a long time. Some of Bennett Creamery’s descendants still run Peoples Bank.” The original houses Sears and the Bennetts lived in have since been replaced, and now is home to a new tenant, Barker said, but the tree remains, growing and forging deeper roots. “[The house] was an important location, a prominent location and nobody much mentioned the tree, but it’s just moved up and gotten bigger and older,” Barker said. “From the tree’s point of view, I just imagine that it’s just seen extensive growth of the neighborhood around it.” Dylan Lysen, Herald staff writer, contributed to this report.
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