Brewster / Hastings
Named for Robert Brewster, a railroad
foreman who helped to lay track, this town became a station on
the Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska Railroad in August 1888. Hastings,
a settlement two miles north of Brewster, had plans to build a
city on the proposed Union Pacific Railroad, but when the railroad's
plans were abandoned, the town site moved to Brewster.
The ethnicity of its settlers is unknown.
Sources
Wingo, Wayne C. A History
of Thomas County. Masters Thesis, Fort Hays Kansas State
College, 1964.
Bruner, R. I., Editor. Land
of the Windmills Thomas County, Kansas. Thomas County Historical
Society, 1976.
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