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Artist Dick Land's conception of the first board house built in Humboldt. |
The first bridge built across the Neosho River in Allen County was at Humboldt in 1870. The sign above the bridge reads, "No person allowed to drive or ride faster than a walk across the bridge or have over 30 head of cattle on at one time." |
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At the corner of Bridge and 8th. Streets, looking south around 1870. |
The Landreth House was Humboldt's grand hotel until it burned in 1874. The hotel invited tragedies, Charles Fussman, one of the town's founders, fell from the roof and was killed. Landreth himself died a year later of small-pox. |
In 1904 the Standard Oil Pipeline Company was pumping from its first 35,000 barrel storage tanks located southeast of Humboldt on a tract of land that would soon be covered with steel oil storage tanks. |
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Tholen Grocery in 1878. Later Henry Tholen and his son Ed bought a restaurant and confectionery store. |
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Humboldt High School built in 1866. Photo was taken about 1886. |
Washington School served as both elementary and high school. It was built in 1898 to replace the first school, which burned. |
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Lincoln Elementary School was built in 1910. |
The Humboldt High School was built in 1923. |
