Eskridge, an incorporated town of Wabaunsee county, is situated in Wilmington township, 16 miles southeast of Alma, the county seat, on the Burliugame & Alma division of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R. It was first laid out by E. H. Sanford in 1868, but the town did not become a reality until after the completion of the railroad in 1880, when the railroad company selected a town site adjoining Sanford's. The first house in the place was built by. Dr. Trivet in June, 1880. In 1881 a school house was erected, and that fall the first school was opened with Miss Emma Henderson as teacher. The same year the first store was started by William Earl, and the first church in the town was erected.

Eskridge is the second largest town in the county. It has 2 banks, an international money order postoffice with four rural routes, electric lights, a weekly newspaper (the Tribune-Star), express and telegraph service, graded schools, telephone connections, a large retail trade, hotels, the Kansas Wesleyan Bible school, churches of five different faiths, and is a shipping point of considerable importance. The population in 1910 was 797.