Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Nonparied Now Abbyville Kansas.

 
Abbyville taken in 1909.
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Abbyville, a village of Reno county, is situated in Westminister township, 17 miles southwest of Hutchinson, the county seat. The former name was Nonpariel. It is a station on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R., has a bank, a money order postoffice with two rural routes, express, telegraph and telephone facilities, churches of the leading Protestant denominations, some mercantile and shipping interests, and in 1910 reported a population of 300.

Postoffice History.

Abbyville Postoffice open on June 1, 1886, was moved from Salt Creek.

Business Men of Abbyville, 1902.



Map of Westminster Township showing Abbyville, 1902.
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/209395/page/38
 

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