Hesper, Kansas | |
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 Hesper Friends Church, organized in 1858 | |
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  Hesper  Hesper | |
| Coordinates: 38°53′55″N95°04′29″W / 38.89861°N 95.07472°W [1] | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Kansas |
| County | Douglas |
| Elevation | 922 ft (281 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (CST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| Area code | 785 |
| FIPS code | 20-31550 [1] |
| GNIS ID | 479160 [1] |
Hesper is an unincorporated community in Douglas County, Kansas, United States. [1] It is located two and a half miles southeast of Eudora.
Hesper was founded in 1858 by Quakers wanting to lend support to the free-state cause. In 1884, the Hesper Academy was opened but it closed in 1912. [2]
A post office was opened in Hesper in 1868, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1900. [3]
The community is served by Eudora USD 491 public school district.
Friends University in Wichita was founded by James Davis, who was a native of Hesper. [2] The town is also the birthplace of the college football player and coach John H. Outland, namesake of the Outland Trophy. Walter R. Stubbs, Governor of Kansas from 1909-1913 grew up in the Hesper area.
Douglas County is located in the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat and most populous city is Lawrence. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 118,785, making it the fifth-most populous county in Kansas. The county was named after Stephen Douglas, a U.S. Senator from Illinois and advocate for the moderate popular sovereignty choice in the Kansas slavery debate.
Eudora is a city in Douglas County, Kansas, United States, along the Kansas and Wakarusa rivers. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 6,408.
Lecompton is a city in Douglas County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 588. Lecompton was the de jure territorial capital of Kansas from 1855 to 1861, and the Douglas County seat from 1855 to 1858. Anti-slavery Lawrence became the de facto capital during the latter part of this period, when the county seat was moved there. This time period was known as Bleeding Kansas, due to the violence perpetrated by the pro-slavery, and to a lesser extent the anti-slavery, factions in the eastern part of the state. Lecompton was a hotbed of pro-slavery sentiment during the mid-1800s.
Eudora may refer to:
The Wakarusa River is a tributary of the Kansas River, approximately 80.5 miles (129.6 km) long, in eastern Kansas in the United States. It drains an agricultural area of rolling limestone hills south of Topeka and Lawrence.
Vinland is an unincorporated community in Douglas County, Kansas, United States. It is located south of Lawrence and north of Baldwin City.
John Henry Outland was an American football player and coach. He played football at Penn College in Oskaloosa, Iowa, the University of Kansas, and the University of Pennsylvania. He was twice named an All-American while playing for the Penn Quakers, in 1897 as a tackle and in 1898 as a halfback. After playing, Outland coached at Franklin & Marshall College in 1900, the University of Kansas in 1901, Haskell Institute in 1902 and 1906, and Washburn University from 1904 to 1905, compiling a career college football record of 21–15–2. He is the namesake of the Outland Trophy, an annual award established in 1946 and given to the best interior lineman in college football. Outland was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 2001.
Walter Roscoe Stubbs was an American businessman who served as the 18th Governor of Kansas. Stubbs, a progressive Republican, was known for his prohibitionist beliefs, as well as for having signed the nation's first blue sky law into effect.
Prairie City is a ghost town in southeast Douglas County, Kansas, United States, near present-day Baldwin City.
Eudora Township is a township in Douglas County, Kansas, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 6,724.
Wakarusa Township is a township in Douglas County, Kansas, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 2,318. It was named for the Wakarusa River which flows through Douglas County from Wabaunsee County to the Kansas River near Eudora.
Events from the year 1909 in the United States.
Sibleyville is an unincorporated community in Douglas County, Kansas, United States. It is located five miles southeast of Lawrence. It was at the intersection of County Road 458 and the Leavenworth, Lawrence and Fort Gibson railroad tracks although the town never had more than a dozen houses. Little remained of the town by the 1960s.
Beni Israel Cemetery, also known as Cemetery Beni Israel and today known as B'nai Israel Cemetery, is an historic Jewish cemetery located at 1301 E. 2100 Road in Eudora, Douglas County, Kansas. It was founded in 1858 by German and Polish Jews who were a part of the German Immigrant Settlement Company from Chicago that had founded Eudora in 1856. One-year-old Isaac Cohn who died September 5, 1858, was the first person buried in the cemetery. He was the son of Asher Cohn (1828–1890), an immigrant businessman from Lubawa, Poland who founded a general store in Eudora ca. 1857 and who is also buried here with his wife Sarah. After 1928, burials ceased for decades until 1978 when responsibility for the cemetery was taken on by the Lawrence Jewish Community Congregation of nearby Lawrence.
Lexington Township is one of seven townships in Johnson County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 1,312.
The following is a timeline of the history of Kansas City, Missouri, United States.
Franklin is a ghost town in Douglas County, Kansas, United States. Established as a proslavery stronghold, the town played a key role in the "Bleeding Kansas" conflict that troubled the territory in the 1850s.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Wichita, Kansas, USA.
Eudora USD 491 is a public unified school district headquartered in Eudora, Kansas, United States. The district includes the communities of Eudora, Hesper, and nearby rural areas.
Haskell Limestone is a geological unit name originating in Kansas and used in adjoining states. The Pennsylvanian period unit was named by R.C. Moore for the Haskell Institute in the southeast of Lawrence, Kansas in 1931. The name has been applied to various beds within this range, and assigned as a member variously to the Lawrence Formation, Cass Formation, and Stranger Formation, and significant legacy literature exists for each classification. These three formations now comprise the Douglas Group.
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