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Robert Baker
Former Derby City Council Member Ward II
TermApr. 19, 1977 - Apr. 07, 1981
elected Apr. 05, 1977 and ran unopposed for the Ward II seat vacated by Larry Gould
sworn in Apr. 19, 1977
re-elected Apr. 03, 1979 and ran unopposed
did not seek re-election in 1981
Arkansas River Crossing Landmark
Warren Riverview Park, 321 E. Market St.
(Historic Landmark #1)
In 1871, Dr. Henry Clay Tucker arrived in this area from Ohio and began practicing medicine. With no bridge across the Arkansas River, he often swam across to tend to patients west of the river.
In 1873, an influx of people to El Paso, Kansas…
In 1873, an influx of people to El Paso, Kansas…
El Paso Business District
Derby Police Department, 229 N. Baltimore
(Historic Landmark #2)
On July 11, 1871, J. Hout Minnich and John Hufbauer filed a town plat for El Paso in Sedgwick County, Kansas. It established streets from Madison to Kay and from Water Street to Georgie Avenue, and business boomed.
Around the turn of the century,…
Around the turn of the century,…
Smith Farm & St. Mary School
Madison Avenue Central Park, 512 E. Madison Ave.
(Historic Landmark #3)
In 1912, Oliver and Alice Smith began a family farm on 240 acres, including this current park land. In 1938, Robert and Mildred Smith took over the farm. In the 1950s, the Smith farm sold to build houses needed for the post-war baby boom. From 1953…
Derby Public School & Museum
Derby Historical Museum, 710 E. Market
(Historic Landmark #4)
In March 1924, this red brick building opened as the third school at this site. It had 10 classrooms, study hall, small office, two modern lavatories and a gymnasium/auditorium. From 1924 to 1953, this was the only public school in town; high school…
El Paso Cemetery
700 E. Kay St.
(Historic Landmark #6)
El Paso Cemetery sits on a slight hill in the center of Derby but was once surrounded by farmland and was about a mile southeast of the growing settlement. In 1878, the cemetery opened, 9 years after the Garrett family staked a claim near the bank of…
Lauber Farm & Silo
Brookwood & Redwood
(Historic Landmark #5)
In 1869, Fred Gerteis homesteaded this land. In 1900, he traveled back to Germany to get his 23-year-old nephew, Albert Lauber, to help work the land by promising the farm eventually would become his. After Albert Lauber returned to Germany to get…
Garrett Homestead
1100 E. Chet Smith
(Historic Landmark #7)
Alexander and Margaret (Dickson) Garrett were the first settlers to put down roots in what was first El Paso and was renamed Derby, Kansas. In 1869, the area was considered Indian Territory (Osage Trust Lands) and had many transient traders, trappers…