Volume 5 , Issue 8

US Land Office

December 18, 1893... The Alva townsite board completed its final report to the U. S. Land department, and on January 4, 1894, they begun issuing deeds for lots. it was the first building in the business part of Alva. It was built for the government by W. H. Wiggins, a well known carpenter of Alva. Mr. Wiggins and his brother were from Hazelton, kansas during the early 1900s (1904). It was completed just a few days before the opening of the country to settlement, and was still used as the Land office in 1904.

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