Xenia, Kansas
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Xenia (Template:IPAc-en Script error: No such module "Respell".) is an unincorporated area in Franklin Township, Bourbon County, Kansas, United States.[1]
History
Settling in the Xenia area in 1856, the year after Bourbon County was organized in 1855, were John Van Syckle, Samuel Stephenson and Charles Anderson.[2]
John Van Syckle and his father laid out Xenia's village plat in 1858.[3] The community was named after Xenia, Ohio.[4] The younger Van Syckle opened the village's first store, offering general merchandise.[2]
Xenia gained a post office on November 29, 1858, when the Peru (Linn County) post office was moved to Xenia. Peru, which is now a ghost town, had a post office from August 5 to November 29, 1858.[5] As well as being Xenia's first merchant, John Van Syckle became Xenia's first postmaster.[6]
The first church building was built in 1876 by the Methodists.[2]
In 1878, Franklin township was Bourbon County's fourth-most populous, at 1,474. The county seat of Fort Scott had 5,081 residents. Scott Township had 2,036. Marion Township, just south of Franklin in the county's west end, had 1,676.[2]
In 1910, Xenia had a money-order post office and population of 115.[7] Xenia Post Office closed Aug. 31, 1926.[8]
Currently, it consists of a few houses, no businesses or service.
Geography
Located at an altitude of 1,047 feet (317 m),[1] Xenia lies in Bourbon County's northwestern corner, along K-65, west of the confluence of the Little Osage River and Limestone Creek, about 18 miles northwest of Fort Scott.
References
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- ↑ kancoll.com
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- ↑ Robert W. Baughman's Kansas Post Offices, May 29, 1828-August 3, 1961, published by the Kansas Postal History Society, an affiliate of the Kansas Historical Society.
- ↑ http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/223977/page/8/ Kansas Historical Society, Kansas Memory records
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- ↑ Robert W. Baughman's Kansas Post Offices, May 29, 1828-August 3, 1961, published by the Kansas Postal History Society, an affiliate of the Kansas Historical Society.
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Further reading
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External links
- Grand Lodge of Kansas A.F.&A.M.
- Xenia Baptist Church
- Xenia history in 1912
- Bourbon County maps: Current, Historic - KDOT
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