Woodsdale, Kansas

Woodsdale, Kansas

Woodsdale, a historic town in Stevens County, Kansas, United States, was involved in the infamous county seat war with Hugoton.

Samuel N. Wood and I. C. Price developed the town and it was named for Col. Wood. Its post office was established November 11, 1886cite web | title = Post Offices in Stevens County Kansas, 1828-1961 | publisher = Kansas Historical Society | url = http://www.kshs.org/genealogists/places/postoffices.php?county=SV | accessdate = 2008-05-19] , and the town incorporated April 11. 1887. Following the bloody county seat contest in which the governor had to send in two National Guard companies, and which Woodsdale lost to Hugoton, Woodsdale declined. The post office closed March 31, 1915, and there are now no traces of the town remaining. It was located two miles east of Hugoton and six miles north at the intersections of sections 11, 12, 13, & 14.

ee also

*Hay Meadow Massacre
*Wild Horse Lake (Oklahoma)

External links

ources

*Butler, Ken. [http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/stevens/haymeadow.html "Kansas Blood Spilled Into Oklahoma"] . [http://skyways.lib.ks.us/kansas/index.html Blue Skyways] (retrieved October 27, 2006)
*Mason, Henry F. [http://www.kancoll.org/khq/1933/33_1_mason.htm "County Seat Controversies in Southwestern Kansas"] "The Kansas Historical Quarterly" 2:1 (February 1933) 45-65. (retrieved from [http://www.kancoll.org/ "The Kansas Collection"] October 27, 2006)


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