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Homesteading in Clark County
Sitka
R. B. Pratt, an early pioneer from
Sitka, Alaska, settled in Day Creek Valley east of Ashland in
1884-1885. He named the area Sitka in January 1886.
The C. K. & W. railroad built tracks
through Sitka in 1887 which made the town a major supply post
for the area.
George Harvey bought the townsite in
1906-1907 and had it platted. By 1920, the town's population had
reached 200, but the automobile and a railroad track built near
Buffalo, Oklahoma, became the downfall for Sitka. The school closed
in 1949 and the post office closed on May 22, 1964.
The ethnicity of its settlers is unknown.
Sources
"Ashland, Kansas: The Story
of its First 100 Years". <Ashland, KS: Ashland History
Book Committee, 1984>.
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