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"Dedicated to the Memory of the Smoky Valley Swedish Settlements"
to
their
pioneers, builders, descendants
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" Our Heritage is all that we know of ourselves:
What we preserve of it, our only record.
That record is our beacon in the darkness of time;
the light that guides our steps.
Conservation is the means by which we preserve it.
...It is a commitment not to the past, but to the future."
-- Phillip Ward,
The Nature Of Conservation: A Race Against Time
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" Our Heritage is all that we know of ourselves:
What we preserve of it, our only record.
That record is our beacon in the darkness of time;
the light that guides our steps.
Conservation is the means by which we preserve it.
...It is a commitment not to the past, but to the future."
-- Phillip Ward,
The Nature Of Conservation: A Race Against Time
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The enduring symbols of the early Smoky Valley Swedish Settlements
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Ruins of Swede House
- Partially Restored Ruins of the Old Stable Walls -
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- TAKEN AT THE START OF THE SETTING OF THE KANSAS SUN IN AUGUST 2009 -
- Note that all structures were built with the native stones found at the Smoky Hill Bluffs today called Coronado Heights -
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Restoration of the stone walls was by Claude Koehn of Marquette, Kansas
- a stone mason par excellence in restoring Swedish Smoky Valley stone structures -
go HERE
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------As a result of the "Global Financial Crisis" of 2007- 2008, this land was sold in late 2011 and these photographs, in turn, were to become a virtual memorial tribute for the Smoky Valley people and their settlements.
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Restoration of the stone walls was by Claude Koehn of Marquette, Kansas
- a stone mason par excellence in restoring Swedish Smoky Valley stone structures -
go HERE
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------As a result of the "Global Financial Crisis" of 2007- 2008, this land was sold in late 2011 and these photographs, in turn, were to become a virtual memorial tribute for the Smoky Valley people and their settlements.
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Go HERE to Recognizing and Thanking.
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~ restoring lost local histories ~
reconnecting past to present
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