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Colokan, Kansas
Colokan was a community in Greeley County, Kansas, United States. It was located on the north side of modern day K-96 (Kansas highway), K-96 highway near the Colorado stateline. Colokan was founded in 1886 by a group of 42 American Civil War, Civil War veterans from Murphysboro, Illinois, as a soldiers' colony. A post office named Colokan, a portmanteau of the U.S. states of Colorado and Kansas, opened on December 2, 1886. The following year, after the veterans had published a circular promoting the colony, a United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, United Presbyterian community was established just south of the original soldiers' colony. After the construction of the Denver, Memphis, & Atlantic (D. M. & A.) Railroad, the two colonies agreed to merge into one town, named Colokan; a plat for it was filed on September 26, 1887. A newspaper for Colokan, ''The Colokan Graphic'', printed its first issue on November 10, 1887. Throughout 1888, Colokan was involved in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Ghost Towns In Kansas
This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in the state of Kansas. Causes Many reasons exist as to why a community becomes abandoned (or nearly so). *Transportation: With the development of major highways and interstates, people were willing to travel farther for goods and services causing local businesses in smaller towns to lose customers and ultimately close. The more businesses that close, the more people are apt to want to move away to a bigger town. Transportation has played a major role in settlement in Kansas. As traffic from the Oregon and Santa Fe Trails increased, towns boomed along them. When railroads were established towns developed along the tracks or even moved to where the tracks were. *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 contender ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
