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 Homesteading in Kingman County

 Waterloo

 

 Waterloo began as a way-station where two trails met. A small village was beginning to develop in 1879 and a plat was filed on July 7. The post office was had been named Stanford since its establishment on March 5, 1878, was changed to Waterloo in 1881.

 Waterloo never became a railroad town as it had been hoped for because the railroad went through Murdock about five miles south.

 The ethnicity of its settlers is unknown.

 

Sources

 "Kingman County History: Kingman County, Kansas and Its People." Kingman, KS: Kingman County Historical Society, 1984.

 

 

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