. Memoirs and recollections of C. W. Goodlander of the early days of Fort Scott, from April 29, 1858, to January 1, 1870, covering the time prior to the advent of the railroad and during the days of the ox-team and stage transportation. And biographies of Col. H. T. Wilson and Geo. A. Crawford, the fathers of Fort Scott . uilton the high ground about a quarter of a mile eastof the old property owned by Uncle Johnny Mil-ler on the hill. The barracks were partly builtwhen the work was ordered stopped. Jack McDon-ald, later, became owner of the property, but in afewyears the unfinished buildings
. Memoirs and recollections of C. W. Goodlander of the early days of Fort Scott, from April 29, 1858, to January 1, 1870, covering the time prior to the advent of the railroad and during the days of the ox-team and stage transportation. And biographies of Col. H. T. Wilson and Geo. A. Crawford, the fathers of Fort Scott . uilton the high ground about a quarter of a mile eastof the old property owned by Uncle Johnny Mil-ler on the hill. The barracks were partly builtwhen the work was ordered stopped. Jack McDon-ald, later, became owner of the property, but in afewyears the unfinished buildings disappeared. Fromthe time Fort Scott was made a military depot, allwas serene, and business and building prospered,and business was good all the time during thewar. The spring of 1862, there was no hotelexcept the old Free State and Pro-Slavery Hotels,and there was a demand for more hotel accommo-dation. George Dimon, that spring, decided tobuild a hotel; so he made brick where the old glassworks were, on the Peter Redinger farm, and com-menced building the building that is now occupiedby Horace Cohn, on the corner of Main and WallStreets, and named it the Wilder House, afterCarter Wilder, who was the commissary. Thehouse was opened early in 1863 with a grand blow-out, and was a great resort for the army Old Block House as it looks today, built bygovernment in 1803 at the corner of SecondStreet and Scott Avenue. Now stands on rearof lot at north-west corner of First Street andScott Avenue. EARL Y DA YS OF FORT SCOTT 77 From the opening- of this hotel by GeorgeDimon and his brother Charley, as landlords,until 1870, it had several landlords, as follows, asnear as I can remember: — Wall White, a brotherof Jacks; Old Man Lathe, then Palmer and Par-merlee, then Old Joe Darr. Darr was a parties would come in on the stage aboutthe first thing he would say to them after they hadregistered was Lets go to the bar and swell thereceipts. When a guest would come
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