Gettysburg
Platted on July 1, 1879 by Willis Ellsworth
and Asa Jones, Gettysburg was named after Joseph Getty, an early
day resident. Gettysburg was one of the towns in the running for
the county seat. Millbrook was its main competitor.
The first school was built in 1884
and the post office at Vernon was moved here in 1881. On April
27, 1889, the post office was moved to Penokee.
The ethnicity of its settlers is unknown.
Sources
Clary, Blossom and Ruth Siegrist.
"Centennial Tid-Bits." Hill City, KS: Hill City Times,
1980.
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