The old Brookville Hotel, Kathy Alexander.
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Alexander – Old Town in Rush County
Bala – A Ghost in Riley County
Barnard – Falling on Hard Times
Bavaria – Ranching on the Santa Fe Trail
The east side of Main Street in Barnard, Kansas, has not fared well. Across the street, however, the post office and a bank are still in business, Kathy Alexander.
Big Springs – Leading the Free-Staters
Black Wolf – Another Farm Town Ghost Town
Brookville – Another Crazy Cowtown
Carneiro – A Tidy Little Ghost Town
Diamond Spring – Oasis on the Santa Fe Trail
One-room school in Elk Falls, Kansas, by Kathy Alexander
Elk Falls – the World’s Largest Living Ghost Town
Emerging Ghost Towns of the Plains
Hunnewell – Cow Town to Ghost Town
Kingsdown – Dying in Ford County
An old cafe in Monument, Kansas, by Kathy Alexander.
Monument – Stage Station to Ghost
Quindaro – A Free-State Black Town
Parkerville – Prairie Ghost Town
Russell Springs – On the Smoky Hill Trail
Six-Mile – A Red Leg Stronghold
Take nothing but photos – leave nothing but footprints – break nothing but silence – kill nothing but time.
— Explorer’s Code
Bavaria, KS – Church. Kathy Alexander.
The more than century-old school in Brookville continues to stand, though students last attended here in 1996.
Nicodemus, Kansas, 1885.
An old commercial building stands vacant in Empire City today, Kathy Alexander
©Kathy Alexander/Legends of Kansas, updated December 2024.
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Sources:
Blackmar, Frank. W; Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Standard Publishing Company; Chicago, Illinois; 1912
Cutler, William G.; Kansas: History of the State of Kansas, 1883
Kansas Ghost Towns Blog
Kansas State Historical Society Post Office History
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