Alanthus | Buffalo
Park | Campus | Gove
| Grainfield | Grinnell
| Jerome | Orion
| Pyramid | Quinter
| Teller | Hackberry
Community - Plum Creek Community - Swedish Community
Homesteading in Gove County
Prentice, Noble Lovely. "History of Kansas". Winfield,
KS: E. P. Greer, 1899.
Gove County was created by the legislature
in 1868. The size was 30 x 60 miles with the same boundaries as
today. According to Blackmars, "History of Kansas",
Gove County was named for a Union soldier, Grenville L. Gove,
son of Moses Gove, who was one time mayor of Manhattan.
The first settler of record in Gove
County was George Von Dehsen, who came to the county from Colorado
with a party of buffalo hunters in 1871 and stayed on at Grinnell
settling on the Hackberry Creek.
Early settlers included: Pennsylvania
Dutch, Norwegians, Holland Dutch, Volga-Germans, Russians, Germans,
Swedes, Canadians, and English, primarily.
Contact Us:
Gove County Historical Museum
Gove, Kansas
(785) 938-2385 (Curator of the musuem, Marcia Roemer)
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".
