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El Dorado In 1917, Amos Gish commissioned T.R. Reed to build the Amos H. Gish Building. Amos Gish operated his veterinary practice and lived with his family on the second-story and leased the first-story front to retail and the rear as garage space to auto and storage businesses.
El Dorado was laid out and platted in 1868. The name is of Spanish origin meaning "golden land". [8] El Dorado was incorporated in 1870. [9]In 1877, the Florence, El Dorado, and Walnut Valley Railroad Company built a branch line from Florence to El Dorado; in 1881 it was extended to Douglass, and later to Arkansas City. [10]
In 1877, the Florence, El Dorado, and Walnut Valley Railroad Company built a branch line from Florence to El Dorado, in 1881 it was extended to Douglass, and later to Arkansas City. [6] The line was leased and operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. The line from Florence to El Dorado was abandoned in 1942. [7]
El Dorado Township covers an area of 54.74 square miles (141.8 km 2) and contains one incorporated settlement, El Dorado (the county seat). According to the USGS, it contains three cemeteries: Belle Vista, Sunset Lawns and Walnut Valley Memorial Park.
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Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism El Dorado State Park is a state park in Butler County, Kansas , United States, located just north of El Dorado . The largest of Kansas' state parks, El Dorado is nestled in the scenic Flint Hills and sprawls across 4,000 acres (16 km 2 ) along the eastern and western shores of El Dorado Reservoir .
El Dorado High School (Kansas) El Dorado Lake; El Dorado Refinery; El Dorado station; F. Florence, El Dorado, and Walnut Valley Railroad; K. K-196 (Kansas highway)
The Times-Gazette was founded in 1919 through the merger of two competing El Dorado dailies, [1] the El Dorado Republican (founded May 5, 1885) and the Walnut Valley Times (founded March 4, 1870, daily since March 1, 1887). GateHouse Media merged the operations of the Times-Gazette with the Andover American and Augusta Daily Gazette.