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Community - Plum Creek Community - Swedish Community
Homesteading in Gove County
Jerome
The town of Jerome was platted in 1887.
It was located on the Smoky Hill River, twelve miles south of
Gove and ten miles north of Shields in Jerome Township. The Town
Company included Andrew Whitehair, his brother and C. E. Casley.
The Whitehairs came from Jerome, Idaho and, therefore, called
the new town Jerome.
In July 1886, the town had 2 general
stores, a blacksmith shop, a restaurant, a livery stable, a newspaper,
a hotel, a drugstore, and real estate office, and many dwellings.
The post office was established in 1886.
Jerome had a newspaper that started
in 1887 called "The Smoky Hill Globe". The first school
at Jerome was District No. 13, organized in 1887. The Wesleyan
Methodists and the Methodist Episcopalians met at different times
in the schoolhouse.
Jerome was a large community until
the establishment of the Gove County Aerial Gunnery Range. The
government took over in 1943, and the people had to move out and
the buildings were sold.
The ethnicity of its settlers is unknown.
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".
