{"id":385,"date":"2012-09-19T14:51:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T14:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/?page_id=385"},"modified":"2022-09-22T20:26:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T20:26:41","slug":"stop-1-introduction-smoky-hill-museum-211-w-iron-ave","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/?page_id=385","title":{"rendered":"Stop #1: Introduction (Smoky Hill Museum) &#8211; 211 W. Iron Ave."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"763\" src=\"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Lee-1024x763.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-681 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Lee-1024x763.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/walksalina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Lee-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/walksalina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Lee-768x572.jpg 768w, https:\/\/walksalina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Lee.jpg 1185w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>H.D. Lee Wholesale Mercantile complete force, 1924<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the fall of 1889, a Pullman car rolled into Salina carrying Henry David Lee. He arrived with a complete office and executive staff of people from Galion, Ohio, mainly people who had worked with him at Central Oil Company. With a paid-in capital of $100,000, he selected this town as the site of the Lee Mercantile Company, an exclusive wholesale grocery house, the only one of its kind between Kansas City and Denver.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>During the years that followed, Lee developed several more businesses around the parent company: The Lee-Warren Milling Company, the Kansas Ice &amp; Storage Company, the Farmers National Bank of Salina, and the Lee Wholesale Hardware Company. All of these concerns were incorporated separately, but all were directed and controlled by H.D. Lee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a period of nearly thirty years, Lee, as president of five businesses, employed the largest work force in the city of Salina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a tour of the H.D. Lee Employee homes in Salina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Next Stop:<\/b> Proceed west across 8th and 9th Streets to The Campbell House at <a href=\"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/?page_id=391\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"391\">122 South 9th<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H.D. Lee Wholesale Mercantile complete force, 1924 In the fall of 1889, a Pullman car rolled into Salina carrying Henry David Lee. He arrived with a complete office and executive staff of people from Galion, Ohio, mainly people who had worked with him at Central Oil Company. With a paid-in capital of $100,000, he selected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":170,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-385","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/385\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}