Kansas, Marshall County, Blue Rapids
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This field was the site of a 1913 game between the Chicago White Sox and the New York Giants, winners of the national league pennant that year. Teams consisted of players from other major league teams, who were on a world tour. Blue Rapids was the smallest town (and the only town in Kansas) to ante up the $1000 guarantee to bring in major leaguers. More than 3,000 people watched the game. The White Sox won 8 to 5.
One of the greats who played that day was Jim Thorpe. He was a member of the National Football League Hall of Fame, Olympic gold medallist [sic], and the first president of the National Football League. Other players inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame were John McGraw, Giants manager and former player; Sam Crawford, who played for Chicago during the 50-game World Tour but was a Detroit Tiger; Bill Klem, the umpire who originated hand signals for calling balls and strikes; and Christy "Big Six" Mathewson, an original inductee into the Hall of Fame who was at the Blue Rapids game but did not play.
During the 1930's many traveling teams, including the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro League, played games here against local teams. In the early 1950's, Earl Woods, father of professional golfer Tiger Woods, played here while competing for a Blue Rapids team. Earl Woods played baseball for Kansas State College and was one of the first black players in the Big 7 League.
For more informatino, please stop at the Community Center on the Square.
(Sports) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
This field was the site of a 1913 game between the Chicago White Sox and the New York Giants, winners of the national league pennant that year. Teams consisted of players from other major league teams, who were on a world tour. Blue Rapids was the smallest town (and the only town in Kansas) to ante up the $1000 guarantee to bring in major leaguers. More than 3,000 people watched the game. The White Sox won 8 to 5.
One of the greats who played that day was Jim Thorpe. He was a member of the National Football League Hall of Fame, Olympic gold medallist [sic], and the first president of the National Football League. Other players inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame were John McGraw, Giants manager and former player; Sam Crawford, who played for Chicago during the 50-game World Tour but was a Detroit Tiger; Bill Klem, the umpire who originated hand signals for calling balls and strikes; and Christy "Big Six" Mathewson, an original inductee into the Hall of Fame who was at the Blue Rapids game but did not play.
During the 1930's many traveling teams, including the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro League, played games here against local teams. In the early 1950's, Earl Woods, father of professional golfer Tiger Woods, played here while competing for a Blue Rapids team. Earl Woods played baseball for Kansas State College and was one of the first black players in the Big 7 League.
For more informatino, please stop at the Community Center on the Square.
(Sports) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
"Take me out to the ball game, Take me out with the crowd. Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack, I don't care if I never get back. Let me root, root, root for the home team, If they don't win it's a shame. For it's one, two, three strikes, you're out, At the old ball game."
St. Philip's Church was built in 1848 through the efforts of Horace and Louisa Snowden Capron and Parishioners. It was probably the first building in Laurel designed by a professional Architect. It houses a bell from St. Paul's Church in Baltimore that rang to warn the approaching British in 1814. An old cemetery can be seen behind the church.Site 18
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Laurel was originally called Laurel Factory after the cotton mill that stood where the Laurel Pool is today.
The Floral Clock at Queenston was built by Ontario Hydro in 1950. The idea to build the attraction came from Dr. Richard Lankaster Heam, Hydro’s General Manager and Chief Engineer at the time. While preparing for a business trip to England, Mr. Hearn was encouraged by Hugh Duncan — a Scotsman who was maintenance electrician foreman at the Queenston Generating Station — to visit the floral clock in the Princes’ Street Gardens in Edinburgh. Dr. Heam did as Duncan suggested and he was very impressed by the beauty of the clock and by its practical value as an attraction.
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This building was constructed for Richard O’Dwyer, a prominent merchant from Waterford, to house his officies and retail stores, but also to accommodate other merchants. With its classically-detailed, granite block facade, the building would have been one of the most dignified elements of the mid-century streetscape. The eastern portion was demolished by the Bank of Nova Scotia for their quarters in 1916.
Built after the 1846 fire, this structure housed a wide range of enterprises including Lash’s Bakery, the Railway Hotel, and McNamara and Thompson, both jewelers. Constructed with a timber frame, stone foundation and a brick exterior, it was among those downtown premises which survived the Great Fire of 1892.
