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Looking south on Massachusetts street .The photograph is almost contemporary with the opening of the university as it was taken in 1867 four years after Quantrills raid The Eldridge Hotel is on the right the tower in the distance belonged to the Methodist Church which then occupied the site now taken by the Masonic Temple Several weeks before the photograph was made the city fathers had passed an ordinance prohibiting the running of cattle on town streets.
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 15:22:17 +0000

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