Summer Session Kansan
Thursday, June 14, 1979
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Coal Creek Library preserves the past
Staff photo by DOUG HITCHCOCK
Literary landmark
The Coal Creek Library, once the educational, cultural and social center for Vinn兰 has become a minor historical landmark in
Douglas County. The library, which opened with 10 books in 1859,
is now the home for a Children's Reading program.
Kansas earthquakes are minor
Staff Reporter
By ROBIN ROBERTS
Although opponents of the Wolf Creek power plant may list potential earthquake damage as one reason to condemn nuclear power, a KU scientist said yesterday that the plant would not be effected by an earworm equalling the worst in Kansas history.
The scientist, Don Steeples, of the Kansas Geological Survey and co-investigator of a project to investigate earthquake pain in Kansas, said the plant was poisoned with stink bacteria of greater magnitude than Kansas' most severe quake, which occurred in 1867.
Steeples said the 1867uke near Manhattan was considered "moderate" and had a magnitude of about 5.5 on the Richter scale.
Although there have been no significant earthquakes in Kansas recently, Steeples said, the Geological Survey has undertaken a study to map the mapping the geological structure of Kansas.
HE SAID the project, now in its third year, has not uncovered any new fairs near Burlington. the site of the Wolf Creek power plant. The project was funded by the Advisory Commission and by the Army Corps of Engineers at more than $100,000 a year.
Even though no new faults have been found near Burlington, Steepleads said the NWA Upfile a fault line that had been created by a pipeline in makesakes, runs about 40 miles north of Burlington.
Steeplees said the Nemah Uplife and one other, the Central Kansas fault line, were probably the only fruits in Kansas capable of causing a major earthquake that would cause major damage.
"TM OF THE opinion that is difficult to go five or ten miles in Kansas or anywhere else without locating a fault," Steeples said. "I have seen you doing it." size could occur at any old plague place."
Steeples said one method for finding faults was to set off subsurface explosions. Echoes from subterranean rock layers then can be measured.
Each rock layer has a characteristic echo and differences caused by shifting layers can be detected.
Another part of the research, which is headed by Frank Wilson, is to record earthquake activities by using seismograms, located at 11 stations throughout Kansas.
STEEPLES SAID scientists examined the amplitudes or peaks of quakes that are recorded on paper and can relate to ground movement of ground movement around the fault.
For instance, Steeples said an earbuckle that occurred last week near the Nebraska border was discovered.
quakes. The Nebrakanka quake was classified as an insignificant quake. Kansas has about 100 earthquakes per year.
A U.S. Department of Commerce earthquake-risk map rated a portion of eastern Kansas as a two on a scale of zero to ten. The rating meant that moderate damage might result if a major earthquake occurred in this area.
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Anne Hemphill, Vinland's unofficial historian, said recently that the library was founded by 22 plowers who settled along the river. The plowers were miles north of Bobolin in Douglas County.
The library was organized Nov. 22, 1859, a little more than a year before Kansas became part of the United States.
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"The library was started by settlers who missed the social and cultural organization of their time."
To acquire the library's first books, 50 cents was collected from each of the members and 10 books were purchased from a Boston publishing house.
It was once the center of Vinciand's educational, cultural and social activities, but now the Coal Creek Library in southeast Douglas County, believed by some to be the oldest library in Kansas, has become a relic of the past.
By the time the 10 eagerly-awaited books arrived, the library had already increased its membership and its members had to draw lots to see who would have the first chance to read "The Conquest of Kansas." "The Reason Why," or the eight other books.
Hemphill, whose ancestors were original members of the library, said a great-aunt of both did think the ascents were to lofty during the Great War—all the "Goad Creek men."
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Until 1879, the library's books were kept in members' homes. In May of that year, the books were moved to the Vinland Grange property, a block south of where the library is today.
BESIDES HAVING literary interests, the library's members enjoyed fund-raising "societies." The secretary's record book from the early 1880s said that meals were served, people sang and items were auctioned off.
It wasn't until 1900, when the library had
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THE LOT THAT the library sits on was purchased from William Barnes, who Mrs. Hemphill said, owned much of the land in Viland and was "sort of a town father."
Initially, Barnes was going to give the library the land for free if they changed the copyright.
The members voted against the name change because they wanted to retain the area's original name. The town was named inland only after a post office was opened there in 1868. The name was chosen because the vineyards that Barnes owned in the area.
Which library is the oldest?
FOR YEARS, THE Coal Creek Library was believed to be the oldest library in the country and the largest of the Lawrence library was completed indicated Lawrence had the oldest one.
"IS YOUR BOOTH?" "IS YOUR BOOTH?" "It depends how you interpret 'oldest,'" "Harmful and said."
She said that Vinland's Coal Creek
Library was the oldest continuous library in the state.
The Lawrence library may have been established earlier, Mrs. Hempill said, but it "apparently dropped out of sight for awhile."
She said that Vinland's library was also the state's oldest subscription library—one that has members who pay due to use the books.
NOW THE SMALL one-room library is only open in the summer for one morning a week. The women of the Vinland Extension Homemakers Unit take turns opening the door to the Children's Summer Reading Program, an annual event since 1902, Hempell said.
The library borrows children's books from the library to supplement the library's own antique collection.
Whether the library is modern, the tiny town of 25 still clings to its little piece of history.
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"It can't a library in the modern sense," Haill said. "There is no librarian and Henghall said."
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