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Lower Fox Creek School at Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

County: Chase

Date: March 2002

Place Name: Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

Short description: Lower Fox Creek School at Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in Chase County. Stonemason David Rettiger constructed the one-room limestone building, which was completed in 1882. The schoolhouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

Key Words

Flint Hills

Restoration

Flint Hills Scenic Byway

Nature Preserve

19th Century Structure

Schoolhouse

Cottonwood Limestone Member

Kansas Scenic Byways

Native Grasses

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

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