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When railroads were established towns developed along the tracks or even moved to where the tracks were. Politics – In Kansas, the political atmosphere was highly divided. Towns were either pro-slavery or abolitionist. When Kansas became a free state in 1861, pro-slavery towns died out. Survival of a town also depended on if it won the county ...
620. FIPS code. 20-39275 [1] GNIS ID. 484489 [1] Le Hunt (sometimes rendered as LeHunt) is a ghost town in Montgomery County, Kansas, United States. [1] While most of the site has been reclaimed by nature, the ruins of the United Kansas Portland Cement Company plant can still be seen today in the woods along the eastern shore of Elk City Lake.
Coordinates: 37.9333°N 95.4148°W. Cofachique (pronounced ko-fa-chee) is a ghost town situated along the Neosho River near the present-day city of Iola in Allen County, Kansas, United States. Being the first town established in Allen County in 1855, it was the original county seat. However, within five years the greater part of the town was ...
Octagon City, Kansas. Coordinates: 37.7608°N 95.4230°W. Octagon City is a ghost town in Allen County, Kansas, United States. [1] It was a failed intentional community that was founded in 1856 about six miles (10 km) south of Humboldt, Kansas near the Neosho River. It was created by the Vegetarian Kansas Emigration Company, headed by prominent ...
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Sheridan was located at 39°01′25″N 101°21′47″W (39.0236193 , -101.3629391) at an elevation of 3,113 feet (949 m). [5] This site is on the North Fork of the Smoky Hill River north of U.S. Route 40 approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) northeast of present-day McAllaster, Kansas. [6] [7] It is in northwest Logan County in the High Plains region ...
Prairie City was founded in 1855 by James Lane, William Graham, Louis (Lewis) Green, and Salmon Prouty after a dispute between Graham and Henry Barricklow of nearby Palmyra. [2] A post office opened in 1856 with John Winton serving as postmaster. The Heber Institute was started by the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1856 but never opened.
Pawnee is a ghost town in Geary County, Kansas, United States, [1] which briefly served as the first official capital of the Kansas Territory in 1855. Pawnee was the territorial capital for exactly five days – the legislature met there from July 2 to July 6 – before legislators voted to move the capital to Shawnee Mission, which is located in present-day Fairway.