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The 23 "half-breed tracts" began at the eastern edge of the 1825 reservation

extending 23 miles east on the north bank of the Kansas River, from present-day Topeka nearly to Lawrence.

 

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The Treaty of 1825 granted "half-breed tracts" to 23 people

of mixed Kansa Indian/Euro-Amercan (mostly French) ancestry. 

 

They were square-mile tracts on the north bank of the Kansas River, starting at the future Gage Boulevard in Topeka and working east.  Tracts 1 through 4 were granted to the Gonville sisters.  Tract 3 was granted to Julie Gonville, and it became North Topeka.  Three of the Gonville sisters married Papan brothers, who were themselves sons of a French father, Potawatomi mother.  This effectively gave the Papans a monopoly on ferry service at the site of future Topeka.

 

After Kansas Territory was created, O.A. Curtis emigrated to Kansas from Indiana and married Julie Gonville's daughter.  He helped the Papans with their ferry, later operated ferries on his own a several locations.  His father, William Curtis, and Louis Laurent laid out North Topeka.  It was initially named Eugene, after the village where the Curtises had lived in Indiana.  The railroad came through in 1866, Eugene was annexed by the City of Topeka in 1867.  The street names in North Topeka include Curtis, Laurent, Eugene, and others related to early history of the area.

 

O.A. Curtis and Ellen Gonville became the parents of a son on January 25, 1860.  This son, named Charles, became a lawyer, County Attorney of Shawnee County (1885-1889), U.S. Congressman (1893-1907), U.S. Senator (1907-1913 and 1915-1929), and Vice President of the United States (1929-1933).

 

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(Papin’s) operation began in 1842 and was located between the present Topeka Boulevard bridge
and the present Kansas Avenue bridge.
It was subject to relocation depending on ebb and flow
of the Kansas River.  (Barry, Louise. The Beginning of the West:

Annals of the Kansas Gateway to the American West, 1540-1854. Topeka, 1972) @
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1. Clay County, Missouri Friends: Allen, Arthur, Thornton, Doniphan Clay County, Missouri Friends: Allen, Arthur, Thornton, Doniphan March/May 2003 While the article gives genealogical information about the Shubael Allen, Michael Arthur, John Thornton, and Alexander Doniphan families, it discusses many of the river landings and ferries during the...

2. Ferries in Kansas: Part 1--Missouri River Ferries in Kansas: Part 1--Missouri River February 1933 First in a series of articles about ferries in Kansas, describing the history of those on the Missouri River.

3. Ferries in Kansas: Part 1--Missouri River--Continued Ferries in Kansas: Part 1--Missouri River--Continued May//1933 Continuation of the first in a series of articles about ferries in Kansas, describing the history of those on the Missouri River.

4. Ferries in Kansas: Part II--Kansas River Ferries in Kansas: Part II--Kansas River August//1933 Second in a series of articles about ferries in Kansas, describing the history of those on the Kansas River.

5. Ferries in Kansas: Part II--Kansas River--Concluded Ferries in Kansas: Part II--Kansas River--Concluded February//1934 Conclusion of the second in a series of articles about ferries in Kansas, describing the history of those on the Kansas River.

6. Ferries in Kansas: Part II--Kansas River--Continued Ferries in Kansas: Part II--Kansas River--Continued November//1933 Continuation of the second in a series of articles about ferries in Kansas, describing the history of those on the Kansas River.

7. Ferries in Kansas: Part III--Blue River Ferries in Kansas: Part III--Blue River May//1934 Third in a series of articles about ferries in Kansas, describing the history of those on the Kansas section of the Big Blue River.

8. Ferry Boat Annie Cade Ferry Boat Annie Cade    

9. Ferry Craft of Long Ago: The Pioneer Boats of the Early Missouri River Ferry Craft of Long Ago: The Pioneer Boats of the Early Missouri River December/25/1910  

10. First Kansas River Ferry First Kansas River Ferry March 17, 2026 Tall Charles, a Wyandotte Indian, whose grave is marked by a broken stone in Huron cemetery, Kansas City, Kas., conducted the first ferry over the Kansas river.

11. Four Missouri River Landings and Their Ferries Four Missouri River Landings and Their Ferries Summer//1996 History of early Missouri River ferries in Jackson and Clay County at the four major Missouri River landings supporting border towns in this area including one for Westport and Kansas City.

12. Francis Fristoe Twyman Recalls Battle of Blue Mills Landing Francis Fristoe Twyman Recalls Battle of Blue Mills Landing Winter//1995 Account of the Battle of Blue Mills Landing south of Liberty, Missouri, during the Civil War, involving the author's escape from the fighting by ferry boat across the Missouri River.

13. Grinter Place Grinter Place   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...

14. Harlem Afternoon Harlem Afternoon February/1/1935 Article about the village of Harlem, Missouri, on the north side of the Missouri River across from Kansas City in North Kansas City. Interview of "Captain Kade," former pilot of the Annie Cade ferryboat...

15. Historic Spots or Mile-Stones in the Progress of Wyandotte County, Kansas Historic Spots or Mile-Stones in the Progress of Wyandotte County, Kansas 1935 Description of the town of Secondine, Kansas established about 1854 as the village of Delaware, Kansas (in Wyandotte County) near the Delaware Indian reservation and the Grinter Ferry crossing the Kansas...

16. Historic Spots or Mile-Stones in the Progress of Wyandotte County, Kansas Historic Spots or Mile-Stones in the Progress of Wyandotte County, Kansas 1935 Short history and anecdote with freight rates of the "Caleece" ferry at the mouth of the Kansas River in 1825-1830, established by Richard Linville and from 1826-1830 operated by "French trapper and voyaguer...

17. Historic Spots or Mile-Stones in the Progress of Wyandotte County, Kansas Historic Spots or Mile-Stones in the Progress of Wyandotte County, Kansas 1935 Description of Grinter's ferry across the Kansas River used for Fort Leavenworth, established in 1831 by the family of Moses Grinter, the "first permanent white settler" in Wyandotte County, Kansas, with...

18. Historic Spots or Mile-Stones in the Progress of Wyandotte County, Kansas Historic Spots or Mile-Stones in the Progress of Wyandotte County, Kansas 1935 History of the "Wyandot [sic] National Ferry," established
across the Kansas River in 1843 and running until 1855,
as the "first public utility in Kansas," with illustration.

19. Historic Spots or Mile-Stones in the Progress of Wyandotte County, Kansas Historic Spots or Mile-Stones in the Progress of Wyandotte County, Kansas 1935 Historical review of the ferries of the Kansas River
from the first in 1825-1826 to the last in 1887.

20. Historic Spots or Mile-Stones in the Progress of Wyandotte County, Kansas Historic Spots or Mile-Stones in the Progress of Wyandotte County, Kansas 1935

Conflict between ferry service and new Kansas River,
or Kaw River, bridge in 1866.