Browse Items (1 total) Tags: Cottonwood Valley Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Sort by: Title Creator Date Added Hochfeld, Marion County The village of Hochfeld, located in the Menno Township of Marion County, Kansas, was settled in 1874 by German Mennonites on land purchased from the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company. Attracted by military exemption laws and new… Tags: Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church, Cottonwood Creek, Cottonwood Valley, German Mennonite, Goessel, H, Hochfeld, Marion County, Menno Township, Samuel W. Lehrman, winter wheat Featured Item Eureka Lake, Riley County This paper examines the history of Eureka Lake, a short lived resort southwest of Manhattan, Kansas.