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Bluff City is only 1 3/4 hours from here. Not bad. I'm in for that.
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It's raining to hard to often today for me to get out and go tecting, so here is some info about Bluff City. Drive time to Bluff City is 1 hour 57 mins for me.
I can't help but wonder. How tall is the prairie grass? and How much of the Park will we be allowed to hunt?
First a few pics of the town.
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Heres a pic from early 1900s
Heres a pic early 1930s
Here is the graduating class of 31 of Bluff City High School. Go Tigers! 1926 - 1967
The community was started in 1886 and named for the nearby Bluff Creek. This by the way was the second Bluff City. The first Bluff City is commonly entitled the "buffalo skull swindle." <- Great story about how the goverment got it in the @$$.
The town planners set aside eleven acres in Bluff City for a park, first named Walnut Grove, later Glover Park. The park became famous nationally as one of the most beautiful in the United States. For a time it held the title of the largest per capita park in the world. In 1891 the population was over 1,500. The population was 307 in 1910. As of the census of 2000, there were 80 people. The estimated population, in 2003, was 77. This town was never known for lawlessness and never had a saloon.
During this time (1890s) the town was a terminal point for the St Louis & San Fransisco Railroad.
Bluff-City - Kansas Southern Railroad Station. Prior to 1900.
The opening of the Cherokee Strip in 1893 signaled the beginning to the end for the town.
Waiting To Sign Up For The Cherokee Strip Run, Sept. 16, 1893
In the late 60s and early 70s they lost the grade school and High school. Glover Park, still exists, but it has seen years of neglect and decay. Recent attempts to revive intrests in the park have been only intermittently successful, and it stands as a four-block memorial to the early civic planners. Bluff City now has about eighty residents, all with great civic pride. But time has not been kind to the century old town, and the future promises little relief. A few old structures, an antique store, and Glover Park are still there.
James Glover assisted in platting the town site of Bluff City, which consisted of 160 acres, ten/eleven acres of which was reserved in the center of the town site, for a city park. Little attention was given to this park by way of improvement until 1888, when the city, finally, built a fence around it, and from that time, Mr. Glover took it upon himself to improve the park, at his own personal expense, and for twenty years has given it every care and spent a great deal of money on its improvement. He planted the trees and shrubs, which he artistically arranged, according to his own plans. He persisted in the improvement of this park, and today it is one of the finest city parks to be found anywhere in the country, with trees and shrubbery of a multitude of varieties, arranged in perfect harmony. Every citizen of Bluff City points with pride to "Glover Park," the name which it has been given by the city in honor of its builder and beautifier. This park has received many laudatory notices from the press throughout the State, and Mr. Glover deserves a great deal of credit for what he has accomplished, in creating this beauty spot.
Heres an old house
(pic info):"This house was built before 1900 in Bluff City, Kansas. It was originally know as the Johnson House, then the Lewis House. Dad bought it in 1944 or 45. Mom and Dad lived there until 1983 when it got too much for them to take care of. I saw it last May (2008) and it is about gone. I left when I got married in 1961."
Heres a link to look at the park and how it is today.
Glover Park
I can't help but wonder. How tall is the prairie grass? and How much of the Park will we be allowed to hunt?
First a few pics of the town.
unknown date
Heres a pic from early 1900s
Heres a pic early 1930s
Here is the graduating class of 31 of Bluff City High School. Go Tigers! 1926 - 1967
The community was started in 1886 and named for the nearby Bluff Creek. This by the way was the second Bluff City. The first Bluff City is commonly entitled the "buffalo skull swindle." <- Great story about how the goverment got it in the @$$.
The town planners set aside eleven acres in Bluff City for a park, first named Walnut Grove, later Glover Park. The park became famous nationally as one of the most beautiful in the United States. For a time it held the title of the largest per capita park in the world. In 1891 the population was over 1,500. The population was 307 in 1910. As of the census of 2000, there were 80 people. The estimated population, in 2003, was 77. This town was never known for lawlessness and never had a saloon.
During this time (1890s) the town was a terminal point for the St Louis & San Fransisco Railroad.
Bluff-City - Kansas Southern Railroad Station. Prior to 1900.
The opening of the Cherokee Strip in 1893 signaled the beginning to the end for the town.
Waiting To Sign Up For The Cherokee Strip Run, Sept. 16, 1893
In the late 60s and early 70s they lost the grade school and High school. Glover Park, still exists, but it has seen years of neglect and decay. Recent attempts to revive intrests in the park have been only intermittently successful, and it stands as a four-block memorial to the early civic planners. Bluff City now has about eighty residents, all with great civic pride. But time has not been kind to the century old town, and the future promises little relief. A few old structures, an antique store, and Glover Park are still there.
James Glover assisted in platting the town site of Bluff City, which consisted of 160 acres, ten/eleven acres of which was reserved in the center of the town site, for a city park. Little attention was given to this park by way of improvement until 1888, when the city, finally, built a fence around it, and from that time, Mr. Glover took it upon himself to improve the park, at his own personal expense, and for twenty years has given it every care and spent a great deal of money on its improvement. He planted the trees and shrubs, which he artistically arranged, according to his own plans. He persisted in the improvement of this park, and today it is one of the finest city parks to be found anywhere in the country, with trees and shrubbery of a multitude of varieties, arranged in perfect harmony. Every citizen of Bluff City points with pride to "Glover Park," the name which it has been given by the city in honor of its builder and beautifier. This park has received many laudatory notices from the press throughout the State, and Mr. Glover deserves a great deal of credit for what he has accomplished, in creating this beauty spot.
Heres an old house
(pic info):"This house was built before 1900 in Bluff City, Kansas. It was originally know as the Johnson House, then the Lewis House. Dad bought it in 1944 or 45. Mom and Dad lived there until 1983 when it got too much for them to take care of. I saw it last May (2008) and it is about gone. I left when I got married in 1961."
Heres a link to look at the park and how it is today.
Glover Park
booker
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Nice info Dave ! Thanks for putting it up
Well, Booker. That's about all I got on Bluff City.
AgSeeker
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Hello!
Hello everyone. Been reading on here awhile and thought I had better get registered and join the fun. I would say I am rather new at this hobby as I am just gettign back into it after 15 plus years away. Fascinating how things have changed and advancements that have been made. Anyway, learning and having fun. Looking forward to more in the future...
Hello from Wichita, Bruce
Hello everyone. Been reading on here awhile and thought I had better get registered and join the fun. I would say I am rather new at this hobby as I am just gettign back into it after 15 plus years away. Fascinating how things have changed and advancements that have been made. Anyway, learning and having fun. Looking forward to more in the future...
Hello from Wichita, Bruce
Hello Bruce, and Welcome to the forum.
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Thank you Kansas Dave, glad to be here...
booker
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Welcome Bruce Hope you can join us sometime for a hunt
Dusty Eagle
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welcome to the Kansas group
Welcome to the Kansas gang, Bruce!
Dusty Eagle
Welcome to the Kansas gang, Bruce!
Dusty Eagle
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Booker, Dusty Eagle... Thank You... Would love to join you for a hunt some day. Let me know, and count me in! Actually ordering a new detector today. Hopefully have it before heading to Missouri. Folks live on Table Rock with lots of shore access. After that, back to Wichita with another week off. Should be some good "learning the new instrument" time!
Thanks again!
Bruce
Thanks again!
Bruce
Silversmith45
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Welcome
Welcome. I'm from Wichita too.
Welcome. I'm from Wichita too.
AgSeeker
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Thank You... Nice getting to know there are others around...
Bruce
Bruce
Is it time to get togther and go hunt again? I am available every weekend thru July. Cmon you guys. Gather up the troops, lets go! 
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This Saturday will be tough, but I'm good any Saturday after that.
booker
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I am good every other weekend. Off this weekend but wife has yard sale planned for me 
Anyone has any site in mind?
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I thought were were going for Bluff City, but that's up to you guys. I could probably swing this weekend, but I'd have to rearrange some plans.
Like I said: "I am available every weekend thru July." I was under the same impression as Okiedigger and thought that we were going for Bluff City. Of course as always.
I'm good with whatever works for everyone else too. I'm just really wanting to get out and find some old silver or gold or both or
Opps, I started to ramble. Sorry
I'm good with whatever works for everyone else too. I'm just really wanting to get out and find some old silver or gold or both or
Opps, I started to ramble. Sorry
booker
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Bluff is fine. All we need to do is set a date
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I just became available for this weekend. 
So whether we get the group together or not, I'm heading out for someplace!
So whether we get the group together or not, I'm heading out for someplace!
I just became available for this weekend.
Someplace??? I think that I went there once. I just can't remember which road and direction I went.
I'm getting out this weekend too for a little while.
