. 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. ling machine; w mill, and a districts, and I up a total of of diera very uats, and 930 in 187i-5. imed after the . in 1855, but and the popu- i a population cnty-nine per les and manu- les southwest af the county, ounty are the iddle, Brunot, IS. Coal indi- VG been made, ility abounds, colored), and lay, and gyp- 3CS of Marion s are made by as stations at le soil is v
. 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. ling machine; w mill, and a districts, and I up a total of of diera very uats, and 930 in 187i-5. imed after the . in 1855, but and the popu- i a population cnty-nine per les and manu- les southwest af the county, ounty are the iddle, Brunot, IS. Coal indi- VG been made, ility abounds, colored), and lay, and gyp- 3CS of Marion s are made by as stations at le soil is very ic. The herd perate well in lany excellent e creeks; but, )d, .the powers county are, in ie township, a I water power 11; in Marion There are two nd two news- COVNTY SkETCUKS', jiapcrs, one at Marion Center, and one at Peabody, both weekly. There are 74 districts and 65 school houses valued at $84,41-5. Libraries are reported with about 6,000 volumes, and the churches number 5, with a valuation of about $0,000. Marion county was one of the locust plague sufferers. Over 200 persons being in want of rations and clothes in 1874-5. Maksiiat,l County was organized in 1855, being named in honor of Gen. Marshall, who was distinguished for his services in the days of the gold rush to California, and was identified after- wards with the Lecompton constitution. The area of the county is 900 square miles. The population, in 1875, was 10,822, in which males preponderate by 680. Farming employs 72 per cent.; mines and manufactures 10, and trade and transportation 5 per cent, of the residents. Marysville is the county seat, 76 miles northwest from Topeka. The land shows 20 per cent, of river bottom and 3 per cent, of forest. The streams are the Big Blue river, with tributaries, Little Blue, Black, Vermillion, Elm, Irish, Spring, Game Fork, Horseshoe and other creeks. Good springs, and well water at from 20 to 40 feet deep. No coal yet developed, but building tone, inexhaustible in quanti
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