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Elgin was founded in 1869. [4] It was once a stop on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad and one of the world's busiest cattle shipping towns. L. P. Getman established the first store in the county, at Elgin, and John Lee, William Gamble and Beadle Welsh started the first saw mill at the same place, which they brought from Wisconsin in ...
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In 1854, the Kansas Territory was organized, then in 1861 Kansas became the 34th U.S. state. Chautauqua County was created by an act of the Kansas legislature on June 1, 1875, by the division of Howard County into Elk County (the northern half) and Chautauqua County (the southern half). At the time of its creation, the county's population was ...
The Cedar Creek Bridge near Elgin, Kansas, on FAS 96, was built in 1927. Also known as Elgin Cedar Creek Bridge, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1] It is a single span reinforced concrete rainbow arch bridge. It is 82 feet (25 m) long, not including 30 feet (9.1 m) approach decks on each end.
Before state highways were numbered in Kansas, there were auto trails. The southern terminus was part of the former South West Trail and Meridian Highway. K-49 was first designated as a state highway by the Kansas State Highway Commission, now known as the Kansas Department of Transportation, in 1927. At that time it ran from US-81 in Caldwell ...
The Caney River (Lenape: Kènii Sipu [4]) is a 180-mile-long (290 km) [1] river in southern Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma. The river is a tributary of the Verdigris River, and is usually a flatwater stream. The Caney forms just north of the town of Grenola in Elk County, Kansas, then moves south into Oklahoma near Elgin, Kansas.
In 2021 the state relinquished control of the property to the Iowa tribe of Kansas and became part of the Ioway Tribal National Park. [14] The Museum was reopened in 2022. [15] The site is located 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east of Highland on 240th Road and .2 miles (0.32 km) north on Elgin Road. [2]
K-192 was first designated a state highway on January 4, 1939, by the State Highway Commission of Kansas, now known as KDOT. [ 1 ] [ 13 ] On August 12, 1964, the western terminus of K-192 was truncated 1.124 miles (1.809 km) when US-59 was moved onto a new alignment slightly east. [ 14 ]