Sunday, February 17, 2013

Miller & Fourmile Post Office, Kansas.

Miller, Kansas
 
 Lyon County
Waterloo Township Map, 1901.
 
Onthe county map you can find Miller in Township 16-south and Range 13-east.  Onthe Township map you can find Miller in section 29.
 
Miller Post Office.
 
Miller post office open April 22, 1887 and ran to December 15, 1905.  First postmaster was John L. Jones.  Closed and reopen April 12, 1912 and ran to April 18, 1958.
 
Miller Kansas, 1912.
 
Miller, a station on the Missouri Pacific R. R. in the northeastern part of Lyon county, is located 19 miles northeast of Emporia, the county seat, and 8 miles west of Osage City, Osage county, from which place it is furnished with mail b}- rural route. It has express and telegraph offices, and the population according to the census of 1910 was 24.
 
Fourmile, Kansas.
 
Lyon County.
Elmendaro township Map, 1901.
 
On the county map Fourmile can be found in Township 23-south and Range 13-east.  On the Township map Fourmile can be found in section 21.
 
This Post Office is spelled tow ways Fourmile or Four Mile. you will have to try both spellings to find and other information on this town.
 
Fourmile Post office.
 
Fourmile post office open July 20, 1900 and ran to April 13, 1901.  First postmaster was Elizabeth Holden. 
 
Ihere was only one patron of Elmendaro township who used Fourmile as thier P. O. address as of 1901.
 
G. C. Gardner, Farmer, came to county 1880.
 
Fourmile, Kansas, 1912.
 
Fourmile, a rural hamlet in the southeast corner of Lyon county, is 7 miles south of Hartford, the nearest station and shipping point, whence it receives its mail by rural delivery, and 18 miles southeast of Emporia, the county seat.
 

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