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Politics: In Kansas, the political atmosphere was highly divided. Towns were either proslavery or abolitionist. When Kansas became a free state in 1861, proslavery towns died out. Survival of a town also depended on it winning the county seat. Towns that were contenders for the county seat and lost typically had most, if not all, of their town ...
Town name Other names County Established Disestablished Current status Remarks Allis: Drew: Contains Saline Cemetery, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places [1] Anderson Flat [2] Independence: Anna: Crawford: Arkansas Post: Arkansas: 1686: 1863: Barren site, protected area: Armada: Crawford: Austin: Old Austin Lonoke
Pages in category "Ghost towns in Kansas" The following 50 pages are in this category, out of 50 total. ... Minneola, Franklin County, Kansas; Mortimer, Kansas; Mount ...
The number of notable ghost towns (defined as a village, town, or city that has lost or experienced a steep decline in its residents, but still features remnants of its buildings), as compiled on ...
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 moved to the new town of Iola, while ...
The town was situated on the north bank of the Smoky Hill River to serve the gold mines that Charles Holliday imagined would spring up to mine the supposed gold-bearing shale along the Smoky Hill River valley. Holliday began selling town lots. Some of the first residents came from the town of Chetolah, just a few miles down the Smoky Hill River ...
Twin Mound School in 2008. The structure is the last standing building in Twin Mound and the last one-room school consolidated in Douglas County. Henry Hiatt was born in Dublin, Indiana, in 1816. In 1856, Hiatt, his wife and five children moved to Kansas Territory, settling in Bloomington. Shortly after his arrival, Hiatt and two other men ...
Silkville is a ghost town in Williamsburg Township, Franklin County, Kansas, United States. [1] It was located approximately two miles southwest of Williamsburg at the intersection of U.S. 50 highway and Arkansas Road. [2] The settlement was founded in the late 1800s by a Frenchman named Ernest de Boissière, who believed in Fourierian utopian ...