Alanthus | Buffalo
Park | Campus | Gove
| Grainfield | Grinnell
| Jerome | Orion
| Pyramid | Quinter
| Teller | Hackberry
Community - Plum Creek Community - Swedish Community
Homesteading in Gove County
Campus
Originally, Campus was a Union Pacific
Railroad stop. Campus was first called "Elizabeth".
The Campus Post Office was established in 1905. The town was platted
in 1906.
In its early years, Campus had 2 general
stores, a lumber yard, a blacksmith shop, a farm implement store,
a church, a schoolhouse, a depot, a post office, an elevator,
a stockyard and 5 residences. The schoolhouse, District No. 57,
was organized in 1911.
A church was built in 1906 and organized
in 1907 as an English Evangelical Lutheran Church. It began declining
with the community around 1910.
The ethnicity of its settlers is unknown.
Sources
Gove County Historical Museum
They used the following sources in writing this information.
"History and Heritage of
Gove County". Gove County Historical Museum.
Harrington, W. P. "History
of Gove County, Kansas".
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