By BECCY TANNER
The Wichita Eagle 

Stone relics in Kansas gain popularity

 

September 22, 2017



VOLLAND, Kan. (AP) — The back roads of the Flint Hills hold a certain charm.

The tires of a lone vehicle crunch the chert gravel on the unpaved roads. Sunflowers fill ditches and blue stem prairie grasses dance in the wind.

Then there are the ruins — stone fences leading to nowhere, walls of forgotten barns and houses and abandoned cellars crumbling in the grass.

They are the remnants of lost promises and dreams.

And they may be an emerging trend in Kansas tourism.

The Volland Store in Waubaunsee County has upped the number of tours of arched roof cellars and rural cemeteries it will ho...



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