The Rock Island Railroad established the town of Dresden in 1888.
It was located 16 miles south of Oberlin. Dresden was soon growing
rapidly with a drugstore, a bank, a hotel, and several grocery
stores.
The depot was a major starting and ending point for travelers
from other towns in the area, as they had to go to Dresden to
get on the train that would take them to Kansas or Denver. By
1910, the population was 325.
The Rock Island railroad shut down the depot in 1960, and that
began the town's decline.
The ethnicity of its settlers is unknown.
Sources
Fitzgerald, Daniel. Faded Dreams:
More Ghost Towns of Kansas." Lawrence, KS: University Press
of Kansas, 1994.
"Kansas: A cyclopedia of
state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties,
cities, towns, prominent persons, etc." Chicago: Standard
Publishing Company, 1912.
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