Maps of and later spell the name Neozho. The survey of the Santa Fe Trail made in , also gives the name as Neozho, while later maps adhere to the spelling Neosho. On the lower river in and around Labette County, evidence of an early or ancient civilization have been found in the past including fragments of pottery and flint implements.
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Do not sell my personal information. Cookie Settings Accept. Manage consent. Close Privacy Overview This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. In Columbus, a few miles to the east, a similar condition prevailed the following year. The Workingman's Journal , of that place, in issue of November 12, , said: "Our town presented a lively appearance during the past week. The hotels are crowded with persons who are looking at our beautiful country, many of whom are settling here, and going into business.
Reeves' ford on the Neosho was the location of another ferry. Under date of July 11, , the "Commissioners' Journal," Labette county, recites that it was ordered that G. This ferry probably functioned during the ferrying season of On January 4, , the county board was petitioned by R. Bagby to grant Simon Holbrook and R. Bagby a license to keep a ferry on the Neosho at a point where the Reeves ferry and west line county road crossed the river. Another ferry in this vicinity was that of S.
We haven't discovered the exact location of this crossing; however, it was the starting point of a road which ran to Columbus and on to Broylis' ferry on Spring river.
We are informed by S. Sovereen, Esq. The cut was near the center and was not observed by Mr. Patoush, who runs the ferry, until the boat was being crossed on Monday morning when it gave way. The boat was heavily loaded at the time and the river up, and only by merest chance was it saved from going down stream and perhaps doing great damage. Sovereen feels confident he knows the perpetrator, but has no evidence sufficient to convict him.
He and Mr. The boat will not run again until they can send East and procure a wire cable. The next ferry location was between Oswego and Montana, about four miles north of Oswego. This ferry was started by Abner Ferguson. In a letter to the author, Mr. It was made by Andy Boyd and ironed by Jim Lindsay, a blacksmith who came to this country in the fall of The ferry was put in operation in the summer of In the absence of the father, it was run by the son, T.
Ferguson, later governor of Oklahoma. The elder Ferguson sold out here in and went to Chautauqua county. The last boat at this location -- about four miles up the river from Oswego -- upset while crossing a party, and four people were drowned. That ended the ferry business in this part of the county, according to Mr. This ferry was granted a license without cost, on July 11, , and was the first ferry operated within the county.
The following rates of ferriage were prescribed:. For wagon and 2 horses, 50 cents; buggy and 2 horses, 50 cents; wagon and 4 horses, 75 cents; one horse buggy, 40 cents; horse and rider, 25 cents; every additional horse 10 cents; loose cattle, 8 cents per head to amount of head; 5 cents per head for all over that amount; footmen, 10 cents each not connected with wagon and team; sheep and hogs, 4 cents each. The location given for the ferry was rather indefinite; it was described as being on the Neosho river in Labette county, on or near the section line in Township This would be between Oswego and Montana.
Ferguson, in connection with Jonah Wilcox, commenced operation of the ferry near where the river is spanned by the iron bridge. Sometime during , Mr.
Ferguson acquired a partner in the ferry, the "Commissioners' Journal" that year containing the following entry:. County Commissioners met pursuant to law. Present Wm Logan Chairman, J. Chas Boggs Deputy Co Clerk.
And now comes Dempsey Elliott and presents the petition of Elliott and Ferguson for a license to keep a Ferry on the Neosho river at or near Montana and the board having considered the petition do grant said license and establish the following rates of Ferriage to-wit for one Four horse Mule or ox team 75 cents for one two horse mule or ox team 50 cents. Two horse buggy or carriage 50 cents one horse buggy 40 cents. Bexon and Samuel Wilson as securities. By the ferry business on this section of the river appeared to be in the hands of Jonathan Wilcox and John Disner, who on January 8 petitioned the county commissioners for a license to run a ferry at Montana.
This Wilcox may have been the same individual who was engaged in the ferry business three years earlier. They filed an approved bond and were granted the necessary license. Sallie Shaffer of Parsons, who has done much historical research in Labette and adjoining counties, has rendered invaluable assistance to the writer in examining and copying old records of county commissioners, interviewing old-timers, etc.
Shaffer states that there was a ferry on the Neosho about eight miles east of Parsons and south of the Frisco tracks. This ferry accommodated a summer resort of some importance at this location, known as "Neosho Park. The following record is something of a puzzle as to the location described. Under date of September 5, , the county clerk presented the Petition of J. Cooper and others praying the board to grant a license to B. Whereupon the board grant said petition. Order that a license issue to said B.
McMillen to keep and run a ferry at the point designated and at such a time as he shall file a good and sufficient bond as required by law and pay to the county treasurer the sum of ten dollars. Rates of toll to be the same as for other ferries across the river. The most northern ferry within Labette county was located at a point where the south line of S.
Jones for a ferry at this point. Rates of ferriage were to be the same as charged at other ferries on the river within the county. In April, , county commissioners of Neosho county? The earliest ferrying in Neosho county no doubt was in the immediate vicinity of old Osage Mission -- now called St.
Paul, after the noted Catholic missionary Father Paul Ponziglione, who spent the greater part of his life at this post. After the organization of the county the first ferry license was issued to J. Williams on April 2, Williams did not operate his ferry over a year. A man named Morgan was in charge of the boat on September 3, , the Journal mentioning that his boat was in good running order, and also that the Neosho was "on a rampage".
Gilmore was another ferry operator in the vicinity of the mission. The Journal of November 26, , recites that he had "purchased Mr. Ashworth's interest in the mission ferry boat. One of the ferryboats owned by Mr. Gilmore was known as the Legal Tender. On the night of June 8, , a great rainstorm visited the locality of the Osage Mission, and as a result the water in the Neosho rose twenty feet in nine hours.
The boat was recovered the following week a little north of Montana, Labette county. The Neosho below St. Paul winds back and forth from east to west for a number of miles without getting many miles to the south, and the Journal , in mentioning the recovery of the boat, remarked: "Although it was but nineteen miles by land to the point where the boat stopped, it is fully fifty-seven miles by the channel of the Neosho, which is as crooked as the path of a politician.
Wilson was mentioned as chief engineer and pilot of Capt. Gilmore's ferry. The boat used at this point was also swept away during the freshet of June 8, 9, About the middle of August, , A. Saunders purchased the "middle ferry" from Captain Gilmore.
In November, following, Mr. Gilmore entered into some business arrangement with the authorities of the town to keep in repair and run what was known as the old "Gilmore ferry" for the ensuing year, free to everybody. Another ferry in the vicinity of St. Paul was operated during the early sixties. Dinsmore, in a paper read before the Neosho County Historical Society, said that when he arrived in St.
Paul in , there were but two houses between the Mission and Baxter Springs, and that one of these was at Trotter's ford on the Neosho, where a half-breed had a ferry. Dinsmore has passed away since the reading of his paper. He gave no names of anyone connected with the ferry.
Not having opportunity to consult commissioners' records of Neosho county, no doubt considerable data regarding ferry matters for St. Paul will be found lacking in this paper. It flows about mi km. It is generally accepted to be of Osage a Native American tribe derivation.
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