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Politics: In Kansas, the political atmosphere was highly divided. Towns were either proslavery or abolitionist. When Kansas became a free state in 1861, proslavery towns died out. Survival of a town also depended on it winning the county seat. Towns that were contenders for the county seat and lost typically had most, if not all, of their town ...
Berry, Shelley, Small Towns, Ghost Memories of Oklahoma: A Photographic Narrative of Hamlets and Villages Throughout Oklahoma's Seventy-seven Counties (Virginia Beach, Va.: Donning Company Publishers, 2004). Blake Gumprecht, "A Saloon On Every Corner: Whiskey Towns of Oklahoma Territory, 1889-1907," The Chronicles of Oklahoma 74 (Summer 1996).
Keokuk is a ghost town in Linn County, Kansas, United States. It was established in the 1850s, in Kansas Territory , and disappeared from maps by the 1870s. It was northwest of the original location of Centerville, Kansas , and was located twelve miles northwest of Sugar Mound.
Ghost towns in the U.S. state of Kansas. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Pages in category "Ghost towns in Kansas"
Le Hunt (sometimes rendered as LeHunt) is a ghost town in Montgomery County, Kansas, United States. [1] While most of the site has been reclaimed by nature, the ruins of the United Kansas Portland Cement Company plant can still be seen today in the woods along the eastern shore of Elk City Lake.
Moneka is a ghost town in Linn County, Kansas, United States.The community was said to have been named for a Native American maiden with the name meaning "Morning Star". It was located on Section 1, Township 22 S, Range 23 E, Sixth Principal Meridian.
Hockerville is a ghost town in northern Ottawa County, Oklahoma, United States. [1] Hockerville was a mining community near the Kansas-Oklahoma border; it once had more than 500 residents. At least 18 mines operated in the Hockerville area in 1918 alone.
Sheridan is a ghost town in Logan County, Kansas, United States. [1] Founded in 1868 at the western terminus of an important railroad line under construction, it served as a regional center of trade and departure point to the Santa Fe Trail to the south.