Carlyle is an
unincorporated community
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in
Allen County, Kansas
Allen County (county code AL) is a county located in the southeast portion of the U.S. state of Kansas. It is 504 square miles, or 322,560 acres in size. As of the 2020 census, the population was 12,526. Its county seat and most populous city ...
, United States.
History
A great part of the settlement in Allen County during the year 1858 was in what is now Deer Creek Township, along and near Deer Creek. In the fall of 1857, a small colony had been formed in
Parke and
Johnson
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counties,
Indiana
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, for the purpose of making a settlement, and building up a town, which was to be named Carlyle. After the selection of the site north of Deer Creek, in 1857, two young men, P.M. Carnine and R.V. Ditmars were left to build cabins. In the spring of 1858, the colonists began to arrive. Among the first were T.P. Killen, J.M. Evans, S.C. Richards, J.W. Scott, David Bergen, and H. Scott. The Carlyle colony selected for a town site and proposed to build a church, schoolhouse and make other improvements calculated to insure the speedy building up of the proposed town. Finding many difficulties in the way of making a prosperous town, the project was abandoned, and the site cut up into farms, which were soon opened.
Though not successful in building a town, the colony prospered. A post office was secured, and a postal route established from
Leavenworth via Hyatt, in
Anderson County, Carlyle and
Cofachique to
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People
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, in 1858. A church and schoolhouse was afterward built, a high school kept up, and part of the time there has been a store, while it had always retained the post office. Carlyle was well known and it had always been a prosperous and progressive neighborhood. When the Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston railroad (later the K.C., L. & S.K. R.R.) was built, Carlyle was made a station.
The post office was finally closed in November 1988.
The railroad tracks in Carlyle have since been converted to a
rail trail
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. The trail is part of the
Prairie Spirit Trail State Park
Prairie Spirit Trail State Park is a rail trail that is a Kansas State Park.
The trail is built on the former right of way of the Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston Railroad from Ottawa, Kansas, to Iola, Kansas. The trail runs 50 miles from i ...
.
Geography
Carlyle is located at (37.9936436, -95.3908145),
in Township 23–24 south, Range 18 east. Contained entirely within Carlyle Township in
Allen County, it is about five miles (8 km) north of
Iola Iola or IOLA may refer to:
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(the
county seat
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), at the intersection of Texas Road and CR 1600 and less than a mile west of
U.S. Route 169. An abandoned railroad passes to the east of Carlyle.
Demographics
Although official populations are not compiled for unincorporated places, the population of the surrounding Carlyle Township was 276 in the
2000 census.
References
Further reading
External links
* Allen County maps
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Unincorporated communities in Kansas
Unincorporated communities in Allen County, Kansas
Populated places established in 1858
1858 establishments in Kansas Territory