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The Grinter house sits majestically overlooking the Kansas River at the site called the Delaware Crossing. It is on this location that Moses Grinter, hired by the military, established the first ferry on the Kansas River in 1831. His ferry, propelled by the river current, was used extensively by traders, freighters, and soldiers traveling the military fort trail between Fort Scott and Fort Leavenworth, or to Santa Fe. Moses married Anna Marshall, a Delaware Indian, in 1836, and together they raised a large family, worked a farm with livestock and an apple orchard, and built the Grinter house commencing here as early as 1857. Grinter Place, a Kentucky-style home built of brick, mortar, and lumber produced on location, is the oldest unaltered building in Wyandotte County. The first civilian post office in Kansas was established here in 1850. The Grinter site was part of the Delaware reserve, covering what is now several counties in northeastern Kansas. Moses and Anna, with their children, chose to stay behind after removal of the Indian tribes of Kansas to Oklahoma in 1867.

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