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Homesteading in Smith County

Kensington

This town was organized on January 7, 1888 by the Rock Island Railroad as it moved west of Smith Centre.

The ethnicity of its settlers is unknown.

Sources

Pletcher, Vera Edith Crosby. "A History of Smith County, Kansas to 1960". Masters thesis, Kansas State University, 1960.


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