Saturday, March 12, 2016

Nonchalanta - a Dead town in Ness County.

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The Nonchalanta hotel A big thank you to Tom Reed, who hails from the ghost town of Ravanna in Finney County, Tom McCoy of Ness City an...
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Wednesday, December 23, 2015

"Eliza - A Generational Journey" - Morton City - an exoduster community

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 Crystal Bradshaw's book chronicle's her five-great grandmother, who was a slave for 40 years. Eliza Bradshaw was part of an exo...
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Friday, December 18, 2015

Morton City - a dead exoduster colony in Hodgeman County

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In the years following the Civil War, a couple dozen black colonies dotted Kansas. That included a short-lived settlement in Hodgeman C...
Friday, October 2, 2015

A story of Hitschmann, Kansas - a Dead Town in Barton County

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Like many a town in the American west, Hitschmann popped up with the advent of the railroad. According to a written record maintain...
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

A little family history from Corwin, Kansas - a dead town in Harper County

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Desiree (Kirby) Rahman Ingram homestead in NW Oklahoma c. 1897 - 1900    Often after my dead town stories are published, I get tidbit...
Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Frederick, population nine, lingers as Rice County ponders town's future

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Frederick, Kansas, population nine or 10, on a good day.  I got an email in early June from a resident in the small town I live in. Sh...
Monday, July 20, 2015

A few stories from Corwin, Kansas

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To read more on  Corwin, click here . Fight with house wife A heated argument in the general store of Corwin ended in an amputated fin...
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