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The house underwent a major renovation from 2020-2023 to save the property and restore it to period accuracy. Local Baxter Springs resident Geoffery Roberts led the effort to restore the historic property. As of 2023, it is open as a local center for events. The house is full of hand-painted pictures and murals by local artist Jordan Wood.
Baxter Springs is a city in Cherokee County, Kansas, United States, [1] and located along Spring River. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 3,888. [3]
US 166 is an original 1926 route and originally ran from South Haven to Baxter Springs, Kansas. In 1945, it was extended east through Joplin, Missouri , where it paralleled US 66 to Springfield . This extension absorbed Route 38 , [ vague ] which had been formed in 1922 from Carthage to west of Springfield and realigned to Joplin in about 1930 ...
Joe Don Rooney (born 1975), guitarist and vocalist; Baxter Springs; Mark Schultz (born 1970), musician; Colby; Robby Steinhardt (1950–2021), musician; Lawrence; Steven Stucky (1949–2016), Pulitzer Prize-winner in music; Hutchinson; Jeremy Turner, guitar player in death metal band Origin, formerly of Cannibal Corpse
In early May 1863 a temporary camp, Camp Hooker, was established at the site of what later became Baxter Springs, Kansas. This area was located in what was known as the Cherokee Strip (Kansas) . In late May while the camp commander, Col. James M. Williams, was in Fort Scott , the troops moved the camp three blocks to the east to what is now ...
The first Cherokee County Courthouse was located at Pleasant View, Kansas (1855-1868) and the second county courthouse was located at Baxter Springs (1867-1868). The city of Baxter Springs erected a building in 1872 to be used as a courthouse, but it never served that purpose. It is still standing and named Johnson Library.
The cities of Baxter Springs, Columbus, Galena, Scammon, and Weir are considered governmentally independent and are excluded from the census figures for the townships. In the following table, the population center is the largest city (or cities) included in that township's population total, if it is of a significant size.
Richmond is a city in Franklin County, Kansas, United States. [1] As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 459. [3] History.