1909 RARE HISTORIC FOWLER RANCH LETTERHEAD MAPLE HILL KANSAS WABAUNSEE COUNTY

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1909 RARE HISTORIC FOWLER RANCH LETTERHEAD MAPLE HILL KANSAS WABAUNSEE COUNTY. WAS/IS A HISTORIC RANCH IN KANSAS. ORIGINAL
ESTABLISHED IN 1882
IT APPEARS THE FOWLER RANCH HELPED ESTABLISHED MAPLE HILL KANSAS
NOT SURE IS THE RANCH IS STILL IN BUSINESS.
WRITTEN TO R H NORRIS HARDWARE, CHILDRESS TEXAS
NICE PIECE OF EARLY KANSAS HISTORY
SEE MY STORE: VINTAGE HARDWARE STORE COLLECTIBLES
In 1882 a man came who has ever since figured prominently in the affairs of Maple Hill. This was
George Fowler
, a son of the Fowler who owns the packing-house in Kansas City. He fenced in considerable land, and incidentally fenced up the Santa Fe Trail.
During the fall and summer of 1886 several surveys were made up the Mill Creek Valley, crossing the large ranches and its prosperous farms. The survey made up the railway company, called the Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska, was afterwards bought by the Rock Island interests. After passing the junction of Mill Creek and the Kaw River in Northeast Wabaunsee County, the interests intended to form a junction between the Fort Worth and Colorado lines at a point about one mile east of the present site of Maple Hill, which was the most natural place. As there was a fight between the
two large ranches
, the
Fowler Ranch
and the Pierce Ranch, as to where the town should be located, the Rock Island decided to go where they were given more encouragement (McFarland) and the two factions were left to fight out their own town battle.
The Fowler site was finally, after a very warm fight, successful in capturing the town, and in August, 1887, after the depot and side-tracks had been build, Mr. Fowler advertised a free excursion to Maple Hill from Kansas City and Topeka
ORIGINAL, LETTERHEADS, BILLHEAD, BILLHEADS, HARDWARE. US ONLY PLEASE.