Places - Haskell KSGenWeb

2008 Kansas Dept. of Transportation

Populated Places

Folsom, a rural postoffice in the eastern part of Haskell county, is about 8 miles from Santa Fe, the county seat, and 20 miles from West Plains on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, which is the nearest railroad station. Extracted 2002 by Carolyn Ward from Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, volume I, page 650.

Ivanhoe, a hamlet in Haskell county, is located 6 miles north of Santa Fe, the county seat, and 7 miles northwest of Jean, the postoffice from which its mail is distributed by rural route. Extracted 2002 by Carolyn Ward from Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, volume I, page 944.

Santa Fe, the county seat of Haskell county, is centrally located on the Garden City, Gulf & Northern R. R. It has a bank, 2 newspapers (the Monitor and the Republican), a number of retail establishments, professional men of all lines, and a money order postoffice with one rural route. The population in 1910 was 150.

The town was founded in 1886 by a company of which J. A. Grayson, of Chicago, was president. The county seat struggle resulted in a victory for Santa Fe over Ivanhoe, and the latter was moved to Santa Fe late in the fall of 1887. The depression which followed the early boom was hastened and made much more severe by a contest between the two banks of the town. The citizens took sides in the fight, which was bound to end in ruin, and a bitter financial war was waged. Finally one of the banks was closed and the other voluntarily closed its doors when $20,000 of the county funds were on deposit. For twenty years times were hard but the recent good crops and the new railroad have revived the town and made it more prosperous. Extracted 2002 by Carolyn Ward from Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, volume II, page 645.

Taw, a country postoffice in Haskell county, is located in Lockport township, 12 miles southeast of Santa Fe, the county seat and nearest shipping point. The population in 1910 was 26, all the men being farmers or live stock breeders. Extracted 2002 by Carolyn Ward from Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, volume II, page 796.