St.
Peter
Settlers who founded this town were
Volga-Germans who had settled in Herzog
in 1876. The area around Herzog was becoming more populated as
the years went on, and land was becoming scarce. In 1894, a group
consisting of nine families from Herzog found land in Graham County
and on that land, a town called Hoganville was started.
Hoganville was named after the owner
of the land purchased by the families. A community center and
a frame church, St. Anthony's Church, were built. By 1898, it
was abandoned and moved to St. Peter, which was founded on land
donated by Mr. Peter Rome, a member of one of the original families.
The church and other buildings, as well as the cemetery, were
moved between the years of 1896 and 1898.
A new frame church was dedicated in
the fall of 1910. It was 120 feet long and its tower was 120 feet
high. It lasted until 1948 when it was dismantled because the
Kansas winds caused it to start shifting. A new church building
was dedicated on April 19, 1950 following construction that began
in the spring of 1949.
Sources
Windholz, Frank J. and Al Riedel.
"Die Sanct Peter Lait und Ihre Dorf: The St. Peter (Kansas)
People and Their Town". 1984.
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