Frontenac Centennial Time Capsule - Frontenac, KS
Posted by: YoSam.
N 37° 27.309 W 094° 41.306
15S E 350664 N 4146703
Small town honors their own, and looks to the future.
Waymark Code: WMJM7Z
Location: Kansas, United States
Date Posted: 12/03/2013
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County of capsule: Crawford County
Location of capsule: Base of flag pole is the capsule, in front of city hall
Address of capsule: 313 E. McKay St., Frontenac
Text of capsule:
Frontenac Centennial
1986
Time capsule to be opened
June 2036
Donated by Frontenac
Centennial Committee
A little history of Frontenac just for fun:
"Frontenac was established as a coal mining town in 1886 in the Cherokee-Crawford Coal Fields.
"On the night of November 9, 1888, Frontenac had the worst mining disaster in Kansas history, when a coal dust explosion killed 44 miners.
"During the last decade of the nineteenth century and in the early twentieth century the town was populated primarily by immigrant families from eastern and southeastern Europe, predominantly Sicilian, Italian, and Italian and Slavic people from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Its maximum population neared 4,000. It housed various ethnic lodges and drinking parlors despite the state's increasingly severe ban on the distribution, sale, and manufacture of alcoholic beverages.
"Coal mining remained the town's occupational base until World War II, when its economy began to change, as did the entire region's" ~ Wikipedia