Richmond, the fifth largest town in Franklin county in 1910, is located in the southern portion on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad, sixteen miles south of Ottawa, the county seat, in a rich agricultural district for which it is the shipping and supply point. It has an excellent public school system, churches, general stores, hardware and implement houses, lumber yards, good hotel, blacksmith and wagon shops, and is the banking town for the southern part of the county. It has a money order postoffice with two rural routes, telegraph and express facilities, and in 1910 had a population of 475.
Page 582 from volume II of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed July 2002 by Carolyn Ward.
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