Maple Hill, Kansas History

• AFT 1860--"My ggrandfather, John Marshal Moneypenny, moved to Maple Hill from Lewis County, West Virginia, some time after 1860. I am interested in finding out when he moved, and if any of his children were born in Maple Hill." LIZBOLTZ@AOL.COM
• 1887--Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad came through.
• 1882--Founded by George Fowler
• 1885--Stone church built
• 1900--Business Men's Commercial club organized.
• 1900/1901--There were three disasterous fires, two in 1900 and one in 1901.
• 1910--Population was 277.
• 1912--Located in Maplehill township 17 miles northeast of Alma, the county seat. It had two banks, a hotel, all lines of mercantile establishments, telegraph and express offices, and a money order postoffice with two rural routes" according to Frank Blackmar's Cyclopedia of Kansas History in 1912.