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  • 313. Seth Hays Home

    Red brick ranch style home with an addition made of white siding. A Brown metal sign marks the home, and an interpretive sign is on the pavement leading to the door.
    Seth Hays Home
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    Map of Council Grove, Seth Hays Home

    This house was built in 1867 by the town’s first settler, Seth M. Hays. It was occupied by lifelong bachelor Hays, his adopted daughter Kittie, and his former slave Sarah “Aunt Sally” Taylor, who remained in Hay’s household as a servant when Kansas was admitted as a free state in 1861. The home now is a museum operated by the Morris County Historical Society.

    Seth Millington Hays

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    Red brick home with white windows and blue shutters. A bronze sculpture of two people sitting is located on the side of the home.
    Seth Hays Home and Statue