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Homesteading in Harper County

Waldron

The plat for this town site was filed on September 29, 1880. The town site was located about 14 miles southwest of Anthony. Both the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific and the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient railroads came through the town.

The ethnicity of its settlers is unknown.

Sources

Sanders, Gwendoline and Paul. "The Harper County Story". North Newton, Kansas: The Mennonite Press, 1968.

"Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence." Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar.


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