Quick Tour Around Bonner Springs, Kansas
Welcome to Bonner Springs, Kansas!	The Kaw (Kansas) River looking northwest toward Bonner	One shopping center at Hwy 7 at Kansas Ave, 1997	Agricultural Hall of Fame
Located near an old Choteau brothers trading fort called "Four Corners" on the Kaw River, at first Bonner Springs was known as Tiblow, named after Henry Tiblow, an early resident and ferry owner of this area
Oak Street, 1998 some downtown stores Oak Street, 2004	Downtown Bonner Springs mostly refers to Oak Streek. In 1998, during our centennial year, White's Department Store (red top, right of the picture) had become Pizazz Video (They closed in 2002). Out of sight, across the street, is the grocery store. Earlier, Pizazz had been at the now-vacant spot, next to Red Fortune Chinese Restaurant, but those stores burned. Red Fortune moved a few doors east. The top floor of the old brick high school, now Community Center, is visible over the top of the buildings. Bonner has many spring-fed creeks (right).
Built to the east across the K-7 highway from the original WalMart, the WalMart Super Center opened in 2002. McDonald's restaurant burned and is being rebuilt in 2004.
Life in Bonner Springs * Things to do around Bonner
Clark Middle School	School is out in May	Kids play ball at various parks ...	...and swim at Fun Valley
Many of the eCard pictures of "Things to do in Kansas in the Summer" were taken around Bonner Springs.
RV Camping at Cottonwood	We have Bar-be-ques and reunions	Harrington's has a horse-drawn hearse	Road repair, on Hwy 32
Stone house	Stone house where an early Bonner postmistress, Jane Waters, lived. (taken July 1997)	Bonner duplex	Reunion picnic, Lyon's Park
The former High School currently houses the local public library, the senior citizens center, and a basketball court.	Old High School, 2 Feb 2001	Senior Citizens Lollipop Girls, 2001	Bonner Springs Public Library
Recent History of Bonner Springs (click on pictures to enlarge)
2001	1st day of school, 8-16-1: BSHS closed - YMCA building construction between schools	Bonner Springs High School sign	Life Flight emergency helicopter
Tiblow Days parade lines up 2001	Downtown Bonner, Inc. float in Tiblow Days Parade	Linwood-Basehor High School band	Bonner Springs Fire Truck
New Bonner mayor, Steve Brenaman, and State Rep Cox (rt)	New Edwardsville mayor, Luther Pickell	Wyandotte County Sheriff, LeRoy Green	Rehm's Park Baptist Church float
2000	Mayor Stolfus, Tiblow Days parade (2000)	Clausie Smith, Tiblow Days parade co-ordinator and future mayor	Boris Sztorch., Edwardsville Jeff Harrington, Bonner Springs
3 former mayors	3 former mayors: Gene Reynolds, (Kathy Ramirez), Al Ramirez, and Reece Kuhn	1942 fire truck supporting Historic Bonner
1999	Bonner & Beyond, Tiblow Days (1999)
Centennial Year 1898 to 1998 ~ From Tiblow to Bonner Springs (click on pictures to enlarge)
On May 2, 1998, a group from the Andrew County, MO Genealogy and Historical Society climbed aboard this bus ... and headed south to Bonner Springs, KS. Our first destination was the Agricultural Hall of Fame. The main building honors Agricultural Hall of Fame men and women who helped change the process of agriculture by overcoming obstacles, and by producing more crops, faster. The center displays the housekeeping items farm families used inside and the museum displays the tools used outside, from toys to heavy farm equipment. After exploring the exhibits inside the Hall of Fame and the Museum of Farming, we wandered outside to Farm Town, with its .... one room school, general store, blacksmith shop, and railway depot Some of us rode on straw bales in this wagon to the Smith house, a farm house just north of Farm Town. The house was donated by the daughters of Charles A. and Sarah (FEATHERSTON) SMITH, of Anderson and Franklin Counties, Kansas, in honor of their pioneer and farming heritage. Near the barn, some kids were demonstrating how the wash used to get done. They decided having fewer clothing was a good idea, since washing this way takes quite awhile. Before too long, it was noon. In keeping with our "heritage focus" we headed to Grandma's Kitchen, a restaurant across from this shopping center. After lunch, our bus driver took us to the Wyandotte County Historical Museum before heading home. Pictures and page by Nancy Sween, 1998
1998 The Centennial	Gathering together for Martin Luther King Day, 1998	Councilman and Mrs. Archie Sanders (1998)	Bonner Springs High School Marching Band 1998
Oldest Bonner resident in 1998	Ruth Bolton, oldest resident born in Bonner	Other Bolton family members	Ray Cox, State Representative
Some relatives of Henry Tiblow, Tiblow Days reviewing stand, 1998
The Centennial Pagent, a Musical, at Bonner Springs High School
The town meeting	Philo Clark (?) is very convincing at the town meeting to choose a name for this town: "Bonner", for a New York newspaper editor who had never set foot here, and "Springs" for the many local springs.		Having made his point, Philo sings and dances.
Wyandotte County council	1898 finds Philo going to the Wyandotte County Council for the 9th time to request that Bonner Springs be incorporated as a city. This time, according to the pagent, he comes in disguise and brings a motion to establish the polka as the official county dance, "plus some other things". When the motion passes unanimously, he flings off his disguise and dances, shouting, "You should have checked out the 'some other things'!!!" Bonner is incorporated as a city November 10, 1898.
Some citizens of Bonner, past and present.	Leaders	Some of the leaders of the centennial celebration: Roger Milller, Charles Thomas, and Clausie Smith.	Grand finale!
1998 was the 25th anniversary of the Show-N-Shine classic car show, and was held in Bonner Springs after the parade.
1996	Bonner Springs Fire Department	1995	Chester and Grace Watkins
Music at Bonner Springs High School
Johnny C. Matlock, Director of Choirs, 1995		Bonner Springs Junior High Marching Band, 1995 (photo by Rob Robinson)
1992	Historic coal burning train, Sept 1992
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