The Miners Hall Museum in Franklin hosted Rediscover Arma, a short program about the founding and history of the town, on Sunday. Christie Nicoletti Parrish, Linda Robers and Mike Doue sponsored the event, inviting three speakers to give a brief lecture, coupled with their own recollections, about growing up and living in Arma. The program is part of a series the museum intends to run throughout the summer. …Joan Barbieri, whose grandparents immigrated to southeast Kansas in the late 19th century, started with the founding of Arma as a small mining camp in 1886 on 65 acres of land owned by William Armacost, the city’s namesake, and populated mostly by European immigrants, especially from Italy. According to Barbieri, mining camps were temporary. When a mining camp closed, the houses were torn down and loaded onto a wagon to be moved to the next site.
Source: Morning Sun
