Chalk Mound Now Just Chalk, Kansas.

Chalk Mound, Kansas.

Wabaunsee County.

Rock Creek Township map, 1885.

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On the couty map Chalk Mound can be found in township 14-15-south and range 9-10-east.  On the township map Chalk Mound can be found in section 9.

 

Chalk Mound-Chalk Post Office.

 

Chalk Mound post off ice open September 8, 1873 and ran to August 1, 1894, name changed to Chalk closed and reopen September 1, 1894 and ran to December 14, 1909.

 

Chalk Mound-Chalk Postmasters.

 

Chalk Mound fist postmaster, William Brewer.

Chalk Mound second postmaster, S. A. Gould.

Chalk first postmaster was Susie Vannotta.

 

Patrons of Rock Creek township who used Chalk Mound as their P. O. address as of 1885.

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Patrons of Rock Creek township who used Chalk Mound as their P. O. address as of 1902.

 

A. Endslley, School Teacher, came to county 1887.

T. H. Hamilton, Farmer, came to county 1898.

F. Ludlow, Farmer, came to county 1877.

W. J. Melton Farmer, came to county 1885.

J. F. Neumeyer, Farmer, came to county 1887.

M. H. Whitehouse, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1879.

R. C. Young, Farmer and Stock Raiser, came to county 1896.

 

Chalk Kansas, 1912.

 

Chalk, a small hamlet in the extreme southwest corner of Wabaunsee county, is about 17 miles south of Alma, the county seat, and 8 miles north of Comiskey on the Missouri Pacific, which is the nearest railroad station. Mail is delivered to the people of Chalk from the postoffice at Eskridge.