Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Yellow Paint Creek or Paint Creek Kansas.

Many Kansas towns sprung up across the Kansas plains, only to live a few years then to disappear.  Leaving little or no records behind.  Yellow Paint Creek later to be known as Paint Creek was one of these town.  Bourbon County History tells of fights alone the Yellow Paint Creek, but says nothing about the town.  There is no record on why Yellow was droped from the name.  Yellow Paint Creek or just Paint Creek was in Marion Township, Township 26-south and Range 23-east, section 8. 

Paint Creek, was a Post Office seven miles South-East of Uniontown.  The Post Office open August 17, 1874 and ran to December 5, 1877.  The Post Office closed then reopen on December 12, 1877 and ran to February 29, 1884. 

There were a few business men who used Paint creek as their P. O., address, and they are:

Yellow Paint Creek or Paint Creek 1878.
 
M. D. Watson, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Greens County, Illinois, came to county 1867.
 
David H. Horning, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Huntingdon County Pennsylvanis, came to county 1858.
 
Joseph Ruble, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Mifflin County Pennsylvania, came to county 1874.
 
W. W. Reynolds, Farmer and Stock and Fruit Grower and Dairyman.,from Waldo County Maine, came to county 1867.
 
David Ruthrauff, Farmer and Stock Raiser, from Franklin County, Pennsylvania, came to county 1965.
 
J. B. bolinger, Farmer and Stock Raiser and Carpenter, from Hunntingdon County Pennsylvania, came to county 1864.
 
 
 
 

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