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WALK ALONG THE OREGON TRAIL BILL AND JEAN MITCHELL
Start at the Oregon Trail marker (a bronze plaque in a limestone boulder) at West Campus Road/Crescent Road,
just south of the Chi Omega fountain. Go north along West Campus Road ...Go west on Stratford (thus entering West Hills), then north on West Hills Parkway;
as it turns west you’ll see, on your right, a wooded area known now as the West Hills Bird Sanctuary.
Down there, concealed by brush and poison ivy, is an (abandoned and filled) water well
which allegedly was used by OT travelers. (I’ve seen the well but not the travelers.)
At the intersection of West Hills Parkway and Emery Road (named for
Judge James S. Emery, whose land, I believe, this once was), turn north on
Emery (ah, just 40 years ago, still a gravel road). The white porticoed house
on the southwest corner of Emery and Sigma Nu Place was originally the
home of Walter R. Stubbs, Governor of Kansas, 1909-1913, and housed the
Sigma Nu fraternity (and a ghost) until a couple of years ago.
Just before reaching 9th street, on the east side of Emery a small, old,
two story limestone house still stands, almost hidden by modern apartments;
on the west side are the Windmill Apartments which take their name from the
wooden, Swedish-built windmill that used to be to the west at the crest of the
hill, built 1863-4, burned 1905. The little stone “millhouse” on the east side
of Emery is one of several built for the millhands; only a couple of them
remain (another on Maine, just north of 9th Street).
May 9, 2009 ... West hills homes association.
Lawrence, KS 66044 est. 1939. Architecture; Archives; Assessment; Lawrence Assoc. of Neighborhoods ...
Lawrence Association of Neighborhoods, Gwen Klingenberg, (785) 838-9197 ...
West Hills · John Middleton, (785) 865-3909 ... City of Lawrence; City Hall;
6 E. 6th Street;
Lawrence,
KS66044; (785) 832-3000; cityhall@
lawrenceks.org
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West Hills Homeowners
Association to
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Visit
West Hills Apartments in
Lawrence,
KS and discover a uniquely retro community.
Located only steps away from the KU campus and directly on the KU bus
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Quick ViewLawrence Association of Neighborhoods. June 3, 2010. Capitol City Bank
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Feb 3, 2011 ... Creek Neighborhood Association; Robert Lewis, West Hills Neighborhood ...
Lawrenceneighborhoods.org http://lawrenceks.org/,. Submitted by: ...
acornwebworks.com/LAN/LanMinutesJanuary2011.pdf
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