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Kansas Private Home Tours Fundraisers. Southeast, Emporia: Lyon County Historical Society Holiday Homes Tour. Kansas House Museums Tours. Anthony: Historical Museum of Anthony. Argonia: Salter House Museum. Cheney: Souders Historical Museum. Clearwater: Clearwater Historical Society Museum. Clifton: LCL Buffalo Ranch and Museum. Delpho: Grace Bedell House. Great Bend: Barton County Historical Society Museum and Village. Hiawatha: Brown County Agriculture Museum. Hoisington: Hoisington Historical Museum.
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Museums & History
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Fine dining to BBQ. Carry A. Nation Home and Stockade Museum. Home of Carry A. Nation, prohibitionist. Stockade Museum and gift shop next door. 209-211 W Fowler Hwy 160 Medicine Lodge, KS 67104 Phone. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it " E-mail. Western heritage, Native American heritage, Other historic themes, Admission charge. Kiowa History and story of the Cherokee Strip. 107 N 7th Kiowa, KS 67070 Phone. Bill and Janet’s Nature Museum. Barton C...
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The Missouri Pacific Railroad
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The Missouri Pacific Railroad. The Missouri Pacific Railroad. The first rail laid through Hoisington was 56 pound rail, just about half the weight of the present rails. Through the level part of the country the track was laid on the prairie without grading, later being ditched and the track raised on a grade by filling under it. In addition to its ticket buying passengers, the Missouri-Pacific brought Hoisington many interesting characters who rode the side-door pullmans. In the days of the header-ba...
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Museums & History
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Fine dining to BBQ. Carry A. Nation Home and Stockade Museum. Home of Carry A. Nation, prohibitionist. Stockade Museum and gift shop next door. 209-211 W Fowler Hwy 160 Medicine Lodge, KS 67104 Phone. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it " E-mail. Western heritage, Native American heritage, Other historic themes, Admission charge. Kiowa History and story of the Cherokee Strip. 107 N 7th Kiowa, KS 67070 Phone. Bill and Janet’s Nature Museum. Barton C...
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Andrew Jackson Hoisington
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The Missouri Pacific Railroad. Andrew J. Hoisington was born July 12, 1848, in Adams County, Illinois. His paternal great grandfather emigrated from England about the middle of the 18th century, and settled in Vermont. He served as a soldier in the Revolutionary and also in the War of 1812. He then entered the office of the Iowa State Register, and was employed in printing. After one year he purchased a half interest in the Winterset Sun but sold his interest after six months due to ill health. In 1890 A...
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History of Hoisington
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The Missouri Pacific Railroad. The History of Hoisington. At the time Barton County was organized in 1872, the area was one of the finest grazing lands for the buffalo on the American continent. It was truly a hunters paradise. Buffalo and antelope roamed this area by the millions. Deer and elk were in the timbered stream valleys. Monon was established about 1888. Meanwhile, a post office had been established a mile and a half south of Monon at Buena Vista in 1879. The name of the post office was...For m...
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Early Hoisington Postmasters
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The Missouri Pacific Railroad. Early Postmasters in Hoisington. Otterbine Beistle, January 29, 1879. Lena Smith, June 21, 1880. Changed to Hoisington, April 14, 1887. George A. Orr, April 14, 1887. Union H. Holder, April 11, 1889. Henry Wildgen, September 4, 1893. John Typer, September 30, 1897. Warren D. Vincent, May 20, 1904. Philip C. Koplen, June 28, 1911. Fred G. Myer, June 23, 1915. Ernest E. Shattuck, December 2, 1918. John J. Roamer, July 28, 1919. Vernon L. Durand, June 4, 1920.
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Early Hoisington Life
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The Missouri Pacific Railroad. A petition was presented to the Board of County Commissioners of Barton County asking that Hoisington be made a city of the Third Class. The commissioners approved the petition and set the election for December 6, 1887. The first election was held in the offices of the Central Kansas Town Company. Helen Miller Gould of the railroad contributed an Aeolian or player piano and a library for the Y.M.C.A. A contest to recruit members was held with C.B. Je...JE Sponseller constru...
