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Homesteading in Clark County
Ashland
The Ashland Town Company was organized
on October 6, 1884 in Winfield, Kansas; the seven directors purchased
land from Charles Roby which was located in the Bear Creek valley
where the Dodge-Supply Trail crossed the Sun City-Meade Trail.
It was two miles south of a community called Clark City that had
been founded the previous June.
The residents of Clark City struck
a deal with the Ashland Town Company which gave three to five
residence lots to each person who had land adjoining Ashland.
By 1885, Ashland had 2,042 people living in its town.
The ethniciy of its settlers is not
known.
Sources
"Ashland, Kansas: The Story
of its First 100 Years". <Ashland, KS: Ashland History
Book Committee, 1984>.
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