Boot Hill Cemetery (1867-1874) in Hays City existed PRIOR TO a church community being established. Hays Presbyterian church was founded in 1873. There are re...

Jacob P. Shutts and wife, Nellie, paid $120 for lots 2,4,6 & 8 in the Lebold Allen addition in 1908. The photo in the middle shows the street labeled as AUGU...

Father Blaine Burkey, the former research librarian from TMP, collected this historical knowledge of Hays into a book aptly titled Ellis County Gold: The emi...

The Hays City Railroad Advance on November 9, 1867 writes: "Killed - The first death we have to record in our city took place on Tuesday evening, and was the...

The Railway Advance was in operation for less than two years. Only two issues survive: Nov. 9, 1867 and June 23, 1868.

Twenty-four years after the last burial at Boot Hill Hays City, a humorous anecdote was published on March 11, 1898 by the Topeka State Journal newspaper.

March 2, 1878 the Hays Sentinel published:

Sometimes historical clippings raise more questions than they answer. On March 23, 1878 the Hays Sentinel newspaper published an advertisement by two men who...

Do you have a story to share about Boot Hill? Photo from the King family collection at Ellis County Historical Society circa 1930s. Please contribute your co...