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12 mi. SE
In 1885, the McPherson branch of the Missouri Pacific came through Milton Township, Butler County, Kansas. A station was located near the center of the township and the town of Brainerd was quickly built. The next year the Rock Island came through the western edge of the township, located a station, Visit us in Whitewater
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18 mi. NE
Take a stroll back in time along the streets of Peabody. Imagine yourself in a different age...when towns like this were new adventures on the prairie... when new arrivals from Europe and the eastern states spilled off the railroad trains... when folks drove their horse-drawn wagons to town and crow Visit us in Peabody
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18 mi. NW
Hesston's History dates back to 1886, when the Missouri Pacific railroad was building westward. The town had two names before the people settled on Hess Town, named for two brothers who were landowners where the town was later built.
For many years Hesston was a small agricultural town of Mennoni Visit us in Hesston
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22 mi. SW
Founded largely by Russian Mennonite immigrants, the city of Halstead was incorporated in 1877 and named in honor of journalist Murat Halstead. With the hard red winter wheat (Turkey Red) they brought from Russia, the Mennonites established Halstead as a farming community, and built the Bernard Wark Visit us in Halstead
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6 mi. E
Newton's history begins in 1870 with the arrival of Judge R.W.P Muse, a railroad agent representing the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, who was investigating possibilities for extending the railroad. Located on the Chisholm Trail, Newton seemed a very logical location for a Santa Fe terminal. By 1871, Visit us in Newton