Galatia
Founded in 1885 by David C. Barrows
who laid out the town site. It was called Four Corners, and when
Henry G. Weber, who was from Galatia, Illinois, settled in the
town, he renamed it Galatia.
The first building was a United Brethren
church. The Santa Fe Railroad came through with its tracks in
1916, and for a short time, Galatia was growing with the addition
of three grain elevators, a bank, a lumber yard, and three general
stores. By 1921, the town's population was 202, but by 1980, the
population was only 60.
The ethnicity of its settlers is unknown.
Sources
Fitzgerald, Daniel. Faded Dreams: More Ghost
Towns of Kansas. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas,
1994.
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