Broughton, Clay County
Title
Broughton, Clay County
Subject
Every Small Town Was Someone’s Home Town: The Vanished Community of Broughton, Kansas
Description
At the latest estimate, Kansas may have nearly 9,000 vanished, named communities. These places had many faces: small crossroads villages; depot mail drops on rail lines, lingering communities that coalesced around a church, rapidly-fading religious colonies on the bleak
western plains; villages that grew up on both sides of a river; towns that had as many as five names -- and towns that had a single name but no people. Vanished town signs state
proudly that here was the first orphanage, denominational church, ladies’ institute, Pony Express stop, mission, or trading post. Regardless of how these towns are remembered, and for what, they are all related in one way: they were someone’s home town.
western plains; villages that grew up on both sides of a river; towns that had as many as five names -- and towns that had a single name but no people. Vanished town signs state
proudly that here was the first orphanage, denominational church, ladies’ institute, Pony Express stop, mission, or trading post. Regardless of how these towns are remembered, and for what, they are all related in one way: they were someone’s home town.
Creator
M.J. Morgan, Research Director
Publisher
Chapman Center for Rural Studies
Date
March 2012
Rights
Chapman Center for Rural Studies
Relation
Kansas State University, Department of History
Format
pdf, 2 MB
Files
Collection
Citation
M.J. Morgan, Research Director
, “Broughton, Clay County,” Chapman Center Research Collections, accessed October 18, 2019, https://ccrsresearchcollections.omeka.net/items/show/35.