Atchison, Kansas Atchison, Kansas Commercial Street in downtown Atchison (2006) Commercial Street in downtown Atchison (2006) Location inside Atchison County and Kansas Location inside Atchison County and Kansas KDOT map of Atchison County (legend) KDOT map of Atchison County (legend) County Atchison Atchison is a town/city and governmental center of county of Atchison County, Kansas, United States, and situated along the Missouri River.
The town/city is titled in honor of David Rice Atchison, United States senator from Missouri, and was the initial easterly end of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
Atchison was the place of birth of aviator Amelia Earhart, and the Amelia Earhart Festival is held annually in July.
Atchison is also home of Benedictine College, a Catholic liberal-arts college.
Atchison was established in 1854 and titled in honor of Senator David Rice Atchison, who, when Kansas was opened for settlement, interested some of his friends in the scheme of forming a town/city in the new territory. Senator Atchison was interested in ensuring that the populace of the new Kansas Territory would be majority pro-slavery, as he had been a prominent promoter of both standardized and the idea of prominent sovereignty over the copy in the new lands.
By September 20, 1854, Henry Kuhn had surveyed the 480 acres (1.9 km ) and made a plat, and the next day was fixed for the sale of lots, an event of great importance as it had turn into understood that Senator Atchison would make a speech upon the political question of the day, hence the sale would be of political as well as company significance.
The first postal service in Atchison was established April 10, 1855, with Kelley as postmaster.
For years there had been considerable trade up and down the Missouri River, which had naturally centered at Leavenworth, but in June 1855, a several overland freighters, such as Livingston, Kinkead & Co., and Hooper & Williams were induced to select Atchison as their outfitting point and formed the basis that established Atchison as a commercial center.
On August 30, 1855, Atchison was incorporated. Dr.
Stringfellow had North Atchison surveyed and platted in the fall of 1857.
In February 1858, West Atchison was laid out by John Roberts, and in May Samuel Dickson had his property surveyed as South Atchison.
On February 12, 1858, the council issued a charter to the town/city of Atchison, which was allowed by the citizens on March 2 at a special election.
The first school precinct was established in October 1858, and a month later the Atchison no-charge high school was opened at the corner of Atchison and Commercial streets. Pedestrian mall on Commercial Street in downtown Atchison (2006) At the outbreak of the American Civil War there were three militia companies organized in Atchison, whose members enlisted in the Kansas regiments.
In 1863 the town/city of Atchison raised $4,000 to assist the soldiers from the county and after the Lawrence Massacre a like total was subscribed to assist the stricken citizens of that city.
During the war, Atchison was also the command posts of various bands of jayhawkers including the notorious Charles Metz, who was known as Cleveland.
Metz, a former prisoner at the Missouri State Penitentiary, chose Atchison as his command posts for raids into Missouri and was accepted with open arms by the citizens of the town. During his reconstructionof operations, he stole hundreds of horses from Missouri farmers and sold them in Kansas.
He even had the audacity to run off the first president of Atchison, P.T.
The new Atchison Bridge, the Amelia Earhart Bridge and the Atchison rail bridge on June 26, 2011 amid the 2011 Missouri River floods Atchison was in fierce competition to be chose as the terminus, and in order to bolster its position, a rail line was constructed from St.
Joseph, Missouri to Atchison between 1857 and 1859, funded in large part by $150,000 raised by the people of Atchison and connected to the Hannibal & St.
At its easterly end. The Atchison and Topeka Railroad was established in 1859 with Atchison as its easterly end and the intention of connecting Kansas to the southwest by rail.
Although assembly was delayed by the Civil War, a territory grant similar to the one given the Union Pacific to construct the first transcontinental barns was made by the federal government to Kansas in 1863, which was transferred to the newly reformed Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad (AT&SF).
The connection between Atchison and Topeka, a distance of less than 50 miles, would not be instead of until May, 1872.
The town/city tried to turn into a primary barns center, but was surpassed by Kansas City and Omaha, due to the former's greater industrialized capability and connections to Texas and the latter's connection to Chicago, clean water St.
Furthermore, Atchison boosters were unable to unite on a single project, instead scattering their accomplishments to the southwest, west and northwest, none of which proved successful.
A proposed "Atchison and Pike's Peak" line was eventually taken over by the Union Pacific, while a speculative Atchison-Nebraska connector was eventually rather than and taken over by other investors.
Bickering delayed the building of bridges, stockyards, elevators, warehouses and barns yards, revealing the disharmony that plagued Atchison's entrepreneurs. Joseph, which later became part of the Missouri Pacific, and the final connection to the burgeoning AT&SF system, industrialization reached Atchison.
Grain elevators, flour mills, and a flax foundry were all erected in Atchison in the late 1860s and early 1870s.
Several prominent businessmen in town flourishing Captain John Seaton, who directed a foundry in Alton, Illinois, to town to advancement the Atchison Foundry and Machine Works in 1872.
It soon began turning out decorative wrought iron fences, spiral staircases, and hitching posts for horses. The foundry period quickly, as Seaton transported his entire Alton operation to Atchison to establish the Seaton Foundry.
Expanding quickly in the coming years, it was known as Seaton Lea for most of the 1870s, becoming the Atchison Foundry and Machine Works in 1880.
After his arrival in 1872, John Seaton became one of the dominant citizens of Atchison.
Besides establishing the foundry which became the center of the town's industry, he also owned the small-town theater, served on the school board, was propel to the Kansas Legislature in 1889, served on the Kansas Penitentiary Board, and was impel for Governor of Kansas.
In 1924 Atchison began the transition from iron to steel which paved the transition from steam locomotives to diesel locomotives.
Rockwell Manufacturing and Rockwell International were the owners from 1956-1993 and they retitled the LFM to Atchison Casting Corporation (ACC) in 1991.
Atchison Casting became a publicly held corporation in 1994.
Atchison is positioned at 39 33 45 N 95 7 42 W (39.562499, -95.128257). The town/city is along the bank of the Missouri River which also marks the Kansas-Missouri state line.
The section of US-73 between Atchison and Leavenworth is part of the Glacial Hills Scenic Byway which follows K-7 northward from Atchison. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 8.29 square miles (21.47 km2), of which, 7.83 square miles (20.28 km2) is territory and 0.46 square miles (1.19 km2) is water. Atchison has a humid-continental climate with variable winters and hot, humid summers.
The maximum temperature reaches 90 F (32 C) an average of 38 days per year and reaches 100 F (38 C) an average of 3 days per year.
Measurable snow flurry occurs an average of 13 days per year with at least an inch of snow being received on eight of those days.
Median 6.2 5.3 1.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 3.0 15.7 Mean number of days 4.0 3.0 1.6 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.8 2.9 12.7 (1975) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 The station is positioned in Atchison at 39 34 N 95 7 W, altitude 945 feet (288 m).
In the city, the populace was spread out with 25.7% under the age of 18, 13.8% from 18 to 24, 23.5% from 25 to 44, 19.5% from 45 to 64, and 17.5% who were 65 years of age or older.
Atchison Public Schools school precinct (USD 409), with three schools, serves more than 1,600 students. In 1997 the Atchison Public Schools closed six of its neighborhood school buildings to open one large elementary school.
Although schools had been desegregated for more than 50 years, this move ensured more range and equality of education by uniting different segments of the city's kids into one school.
A several of the old neighborhood schools still stand - one, known as Lincoln school at 810 Division Street was historically a segregated school for black children.
Many entities have attempted to restore Lincoln School, which is on the Kansas State Register of Historic Places. Atchison Elementary School, grades K 5 Atchison Middle School, grades 6 8 Atchison High School, grades 9 12 Atchison Alternative School, grades 6-12 Benedict Catholic School (was retitled from Atchison Catholic Elementary School in 2013) An Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway route map from 1891 copy of Grain Dealers and Shippers Gazetteer.
National Register of Historic Places listings in Atchison County, Kansas Atchison Storage Facility SS Atchison Victory a b c d Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) details for Atchison, Kansas; United States Geological Survey (USGS); October 13, 1978.
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Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing affairs, establishments, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc ...
Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing affairs, establishments, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc ...
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