Oronoque
The town site was platted by the Lincoln
Land Company on July 25, 1885, and filed for record on August
10, 1885. After Leota lost the fight for the county seat, the
townspeople moved their interests to Oronoque which became a trading
center. The town boomed for a little while, but it did not develop
into the town the founders had hoped for. It was on the Burlington
line from Republican, Nebraska to Oberlin.
The ethnicity of its settlers is unknown.
Sources
Bowers, D. N. Seventy Years in
Norton County, Kansas, 1872-1942. The Norton County Champion,
Norton, Kansas, 1942.
Nicholson, John H. A History of Norton County, Kansas. Masters
Thesis,
Colorado State College of Education, 1941.
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