Groundsite Image Gallery
Lakeview
Artist: Hughes, Langston
Height: 0.000"
Width: 0.000"
Lakeview field, 5.5 miles northwest of Lawrence on Scenic River Rd.
This field just south of the Kansas River oxbow loop shows the soil fertility. The bottomland silt produces crops of hay, wheat, corn, soybeans, and other crops.
Charles and Mary Langston owned a farm near here from 1870 to about 1892. Charles was already in his fifties when he took up farming. The Langstons raised wheat, rye, corn, oats, Irish potatoes, and sweet potatoes. In 1883 A. T. Andreas observed: “[Langston] has one of the finest apple orchards in the State, and plenty of small fruit” (History of the State of Kansas). Andreas goes on to describe the farm: “It is all inclosed [sic] and all under cultivation except thirty acres of timber land. He has a comfortable residence and good farm buildings.”