Rural School Class
April 21, 1922
Rural school class (possibly Spring Creek School) with the photo dated April 21, 1922
Back of photo reads:
Blanch Schweizter
from
Miss Jones
April 21, 1922
Back row (left to right):
Edwin Shorey, Bernice Goodin English, Myrtle Parrish, Blanche Dooley, Bertha Jones Hughes, unknown, unknown
Front row (some of the students named):
Ethyl Goodin Goeldner, Paul Goodin, unknown, unknown, unknown, Doris Goodin
Alma Schweitzer Baker
Spring Creek School students
March 1917
Students at Spring Creek school around March 1917
John Wehrman
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 and people traveling through. Hearing this area called “the garden spot of Kansas,” the Garretts were lured to leave Ohio in search of this land.
In spring 1869, after traveling by covered wagon for approximately 1,000 miles, the Garrett family paused at Spring Creek, just northwest of where you stand. What is currently Garrett Park was part of the original Garrett homestead. Both Mr. and Mrs. Garrett took out a claim so they would have enough acreage to farm. They made a small sod house near the creek. Soon after they arrived, their daughter Anna was born. After the railroad track was built in 1879, more settlers staked homesteads and began forming a community of farmers that evolved into a town named El Paso officially incorporated in 1871.
Since the 1980s when the RED HORSE unit at McConnell Air Force Base constructed Garrett Park, this city park has been home to softball and baseball leagues, tournaments and recreational play. In honor of the civil engineering group, the city named the park driveway RED HORSE Drive.
City of Derby