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Drawn west by the promise of free, fertile land, pioneer settlers arrived in Kansas starting in 1869. In 1879, W.A. Watson arrived at the town site, and a post office was established. In 1885, there were three houses and seven voters in town. Lane County became a county in 1886, with Dighton as its county seat.
Its county seat is Dighton, [3] the only incorporated city in the county. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 1,574, [1] making it the third-least populous county in Kansas. The county was named after James Lane, a leader of the Jayhawker abolitionist movement and served as one of the first U.S. senators from Kansas. [4]
March 27, 2023 (519 North D St. Herington: 28: Litts-Dieter House: Litts-Dieter House: July 14, 2000 (702 North Cedar: Abilene: 29: Mead-Rogers House: Mead-Rogers House
The Lane County Courthouse, located at 144 South Lane Street in Dighton, is the seat of government of Lane County, Kansas. Dighton has been the county seat since 1886. The courthouse was built from 1930 to 1931 by H. W. Underhill Construction Company. Mann & Company of Hutchinson, Kansas designed the courthouse in the Art Deco style. The ...
The Alexander & Anna Schwartz Farm, located at 57 E. Rd. 70 in Dighton, Kansas, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. [1] It includes three buildings (a house built c.1928, a barn, and a smokehouse/cellar) and an Aermotor windmill. The house is built of structural hollow clay tile, also known as structural terra cotta. [2]
Joseph Burton, U.S. Senator from Kansas [8] Edward Little, U.S. Representative from Kansas [9] Kenneth McLeod, Canadian politician; Frank Parent, California court judge [10] Seymour Stedman, lawyer and Socialist candidate for Vice-President of the United States
Dighton High School (2015) Dighton USD 482 is a public unified school district headquartered in Dighton, Kansas, United States. [1] The district includes the communities of Dighton, Alamota, Amy, Pendennis, Shields, and nearby rural areas. [2]
Stockton, Kansas This page was last edited on 19 June 2020, at 02:32 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4 ...