Class: Commercial

Photo Courtesy of the Jeffcoat Photography Studio Museum. This longtime Abilene business actually began in the small Dickinson County town of Belle Springs, a community settled by River Brethren families from Pennsylvania.  The original creamery was developed for the purpose of manufacturing butter.  In 1892, a new creamery was built outside of Abilene in Prospect …

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For more than half a century Wiley’s was the place to shop in Hutchinson. Started by Vernon Wiley in 1901 as the Rorabaugh-Wiley Dry Goods Company the store originally stocked ladies’ cloaks, jackets and underwear for men and women, domestics, linens, dress goods and notions. A.O. Rorabaugh, whose home base was in Wichita, was considered …

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