Santa Fe
Homesteading in Haskell County
Prentice, Noble Lovely. "History of
Kansas". Winfield, KS: E. P. Greer, 1899.
Arapahoe County was created on March 7, 1873 in a portion of
unorganized territory in southwest Kansas. An act of the Kansas
Legislature dissolved this county on March 18, 1883, and connected
it to neighboring Finney County. On July 12, 1887, the legislature
organized the county of Haskell using the Arapahoe County boundaries.
(Note: this Arapahoe County is different from the Arapahoe County
that was located in the western part of the Kansas Territory,
now eastern Colorado.)
Named for Dudley Chase Haskell, a U.S. Congressman from Lawrence,
Kansas, Haskell County's first settlers began arriving in 1885.
A small number of them were immigrants from England, Germany,
and Ireland. The rest came from the eastern part of the midwestern
United States, such as Illinois, Ohio, Iowa and Missouri.
Sources
McLain, F. M. D. "A History
of Haskell County, Kansas". Masters Thesis, Fort Hays Kansas
State College, 1957.
Blackmar, Frank W., ed. "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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