. A new centennial history of the State of Kansas [microform] : being a full and complete civil, political, and military history of the state from its earliest settlement to the present time. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. County Sketches. 621 I in this county jre are striking Gferscn county, and some mills 5 in the county I grist mills and wnship, a water nd saw mill in 3t mill in Rural in Valley Falls, ,re four bcjnks, 1 an aggregate â s, one at Valley school districts, ; $128,529; be- lols at Newman dings valued at ships was 6,250 lections. Jeffer- named in honor id in the engage- i
. A new centennial history of the State of Kansas [microform] : being a full and complete civil, political, and military history of the state from its earliest settlement to the present time. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. County Sketches. 621 I in this county jre are striking Gferscn county, and some mills 5 in the county I grist mills and wnship, a water nd saw mill in 3t mill in Rural in Valley Falls, ,re four bcjnks, 1 an aggregate â s, one at Valley school districts, ; $128,529; be- lols at Newman dings valued at ships was 6,250 lections. Jeffer- named in honor id in the engage- i of the county as 7,651. Males )out ninety per > six per cent of epublican River y, and the other ig Timber, Por- ialo, Limestone, mgs are numer- rom six to one ive. Good coal ;nite discovered lestone is found ionally. In the t it has not beea developed. There are no railroads in this county. Jewell Cen- tre, the county seat, is lii miles northwest from Topeka; it is built on a beautiful plain, and has a weekly paper, a large school house, churches and nurseries. There are no water powers avail- able, and manufactures are represented by one steam saw mill at White Mound township. Jewell city publishes a weekly paper. There are no banks in the county. There are 118 districts and 44= school houses valued at $26,259. There is only one church, built by the Methodists at a cost of $800. Jewell county suffered much from the locusts, as 1,500 persons were reported wanting rations. Johnson County was organized in 1855, and named in honor of a Methodist missionary among the Shawnees from 1829 until the territory was settled. The area is 480 square miles, and the population in 1875 was 14,580. Males preponderate to the num- ber of 564. Farming engages the attention of seventy-two per cent of the population, and eight per cent are employed in mines and manufactures. The county seat is at Olathe, 48 miles east from Topeka. Bottom lands make up ten per cent of the surface, and there is a
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