The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-09-06
THE JAYtiAWKER OF SUNFL OVERFLOW

name couldn't save it and it died in 1858
aged years. 1. is now a farm. Among
| the other Anderson lost" towns are
/ Fairyiew, Eliza. Pottawatomie City, Cres-
co. Hyatt Shannon, Mandova and Eliza
beth.
| In 1870 an Eastern coal baron named
I Godfrey opened UP some strip coal mines
| ia Bourbon county. He started town
and called it Godfrey. 1t grew to popu-
| lation OF 1000 When the coal business
gave out Godfrey fell and it now an aban-
/ doned town. 1t was here that John Per-
~, formerly Of Kansas City, but now of
| England, got his start in the coal business.
At that time Perry used TO haul coal to
! the railroad for Godfrey with four OK
team He saved little money and start
ed TO mine on his own hook. He soon
! became a coal baron himself. His bust
ness afterward became the Keith & Per-
~ Coal Company. now the Central Coal
/ and Coke Company, of Kansas City. j.
j. Lane took a notion that Fort Scott was
not needed on the map, so he started a
town in Bourbon county named Fort Lin
coin. That was in 1861. 1t was planned
carried and the town still lives, while
Fort Lincoln has been abandoned for al
most forty years. Among the other aban-
doned towns of Bourbon county are APP
phton, Memphis, Wheeling. Elnor. Mar
maton. Rayville, Garland and Dayton.
Paris was one time the connty seat OF
Linn county. A posse of citizens went
over there one day and captured all the
records and took them to Mound City.
Paris soon fell by the wayside. among
the other lost towns in Linn county are
Moneka, Mansfield, Linnville and Twin
Springs
Milwaukee is not a name to conJure
with in Kansas. In 1871 a town by that
name was established in Butler county.
Il only lasted few years and the land
now instead of being occupied by brewer
les is being farmed. Chelsea and White
water City are two more abandoned
towns of that county. There is a thriving
little town named Whitewater there now.
Lawrenceburg and Lake Silbey were
two thriving little towns in Cloud coun-
ty in an early day. They are now out
of existence
Cowley county has a couple of lost
towns on its list-Tisdale and Lazette.
In 1867 Crawfordville was the county
seat Of Crawford county. Now it lives
only in memory. Percy Daniels was one
of its founders. 1t died in 1869. Georgia
City was established in the present coal
fields of Crawford county in 1869. Pitts
burg came along few years afterward
and showed il off the map
Decatur Center was located in the very
center of Decatur county in 1879. 1t as
pired to be the county seat. Oberlin beat
il out and it went to pieces. st. John was
the name of another town in that county
which wanted the county seat. 1t lost out
and the people picked up and moved to
Oberlin in body.
Doniphan county has a whole raft of
abandoned towns. Among them are: Gin
cinnati. Buffalo, lola. Winona, Lafay
cite, Evansville, F'airview. lie Roy, Co
lumbus, Whitehead, Smithton, Bellemont.
Petersburg. Rogersville. La Porte, Ian
dondale, Mount Vernon, Arizona, Pitts
burg, Syracuse, Charleston.
Rome was one of the first towns plat
ted in Ellis county, but 1t has long since
gone out of existence.
Franklin county has quite list of lost