History of Nemaha County, Kansas . mer and overland by ox team from Atchison. The Smith Hotelserved two purposes as well as the Lappin place, for it was utilized asSenecas first school and Miss Addie Smith taught the first school therein 1858. Buildings were becoming not so rare a luxury now, although therewas some excitement when the first building of concrete stone was HISTORY OF NEMAHA COUNTY 8i erected, which later was torn down for a building of natural , dwellirigs were going up, and within a couple of years thefirst court house was built and business affairs moved along as
History of Nemaha County, Kansas . mer and overland by ox team from Atchison. The Smith Hotelserved two purposes as well as the Lappin place, for it was utilized asSenecas first school and Miss Addie Smith taught the first school therein 1858. Buildings were becoming not so rare a luxury now, although therewas some excitement when the first building of concrete stone was HISTORY OF NEMAHA COUNTY 8i erected, which later was torn down for a building of natural , dwellirigs were going up, and within a couple of years thefirst court house was built and business affairs moved along as smoothlya town of more years. Two hotels in a village of less than two hundred people may seeman unnecessary outlay, but it was not. Seneca was on the Denver Over-land road and the hotels were kept busy. Immigration was immense atthat time. Gold seekers still were going to California. Denver was alure. Pikes Peak was as tempting as the golden rivers of western lands of Kansas were advertised all Over the east, with. MAIN STREET AND BUSINESS SECTION, SENECA, KANS. maps of thriving cities, streams of smoke pouring from factory chim-neys, and populous streets picturing an irresistable temptation. Run-ning a hotel in those days was a real money making business. A dollarwas charged for all meals, and it was not an unusual thing to have thetables crowded full meal after meal. From six residents, when Seneca secured the county seat from itsrivals, within six years it had grown to a population of 300; a transientpopulation of twenty-five to thirty daily; two hotels, a grist mill, sawmill, school, jewelry store, hardware store, newspaper, several otherbusiness buildings, county buildings and dwellings. In the early eightiesSeneca had 1,500 inhabitants, and now it has 2,000. (6) 82 HISTORY OF NEMAHA COUNTY It seems rather a pity that Seneca has not become a real metropolis,for her streets are laid out with such generous width, that a cityful couldbe accommodated in them.
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