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L to R: Senators Strom Thurmond, Edwin Muskey, Robert Dole, Barry Goldwater, John Sparkman. All ran for National Office (1)
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Labette (12)
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Labette County (2)
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Lake Creek sh (2)
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Lake Perryr (1)
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Lakefront homes (1)
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Lakefront homes in subdivision. (1)
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Lakeside Nature Center at Swope Park (1)
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Lakeside Nature Center at Swope Park. Designed by International Architects Atelier. (1)
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Lakeview (2)
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Lakeview field, 5.5 miles northwest of Lawrence on Scenic River Rd. This field just south of the Kansas River oxbow loop shows the soil fertility. The bottomland silt produces crops of hay, wheat, corn, soybeans, and other crops. Charles and Mary Langston owned a farm near here from 1870 to about 1892. Charles was already in his fifties when he took up farming. The Langstons raised wheat, rye, corn, oats, Irish potatoes, and sweet potatoes. In 1883 A. T. Andreas observed: [Langston] has one of the finest apple orchards in the State, and plenty of small fruit (History of the State of Kansas). Andreas goes on to describe the farm: It is all inclosed [sic] and all under cultivation except thirty acres of timber land. He has a comfortable residence and good farm buildings. (1)
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Lakeview School (1)
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Lakeview School, 1908. This photograph from the Shane-Thompson Collection of the Kansas Collection at the University of Kansas shows a classroom about 25 years after the Charles and Mary Langston family moved away from Lakeview. The one-room schoolhouses included all grades, with a limit of 60 students. Here the older students wear suits and ties. In this area the classes were integrated through all grades. Langston Hughes's mother and uncle probably attended this school. From 1860 to 1877, Lakeview School was in a smaller building located north of the railroad tracks. In 1877, the brick and stone schoolhouse was built. An 1880 newspaper clipping describes a school program of songs, pantomimes, tableaus, recitations, orations, and dialogues. This may have been an inspiration for Carrie Langston's interest in theater. (1)
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Lakeview, 5.5 miles northwest of Lawrence on Lakeview River Rd. Lakeview is accessible by driving north on Iowa St. (Highway 59) past the 9th St. intersection; merging into the right lane turnpike exit onto McDonald Dr.; left (west) at the Princeton St. light; and the first right (north) onto N. Iowa St., continuing until it runs into Lakeview Rd. Lakeview Rd. winds westward for five miles. Charles and Mary Langston, maternal grandparents of Langston Hughes, lived at this site until 1886, when they moved to Lawrence. Perhaps the difficult winter between 1885 and 1886, as well as his increasing age, led to the move. Langston Hughes's uncle, Nathaniel Turner Hughes, was born at Lakeview in 1870, and Hughes's mother, Carolina, was born here in 1873. Charles Langston owned 126 acres along the south of the river. In the 1893-94 city directory, just after his death, Charles Langston is still listed as owning 26 acres of this land. He died in 1892, and in 1892 a private gun club was founded here. The private resort still owns the land. Today the parts of the meander closest to the river have silted in, and a road bisects the loop, dividing the lake into two sections. (1)
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Lakeview, Kansas (4)
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Lakin quadrangle (1)
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Lambert conformal conic proj. (1)
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Lamiaceae (8)
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Lamium (2)
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Lamium purpureum L. (2)
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Lanceolate point, base broken off; deep brown to black chert grading into an ill-replaced, fossiliferous material at basal end (2)
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