Lyon County Cemetery Series #27 - Comisky Traditional Cache
Lyon County Cemetery Series #27 - Comisky
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I have teamed up with KCChiefs and GumshoeTully to put together a Lyon County Cemetery Series. When completed, this series should include approximately 37 cemeteries scattered around Lyon County, Kansas.
As always, remember where you are. Treat the location and its residents with the utmost respect.
CONGRATS TO IRSUSAN FOR BEING THE FIRST TO FIND.
What you are looking for is a small cache with a dino, a log book (please bring your own pencil), and a prize for the first to find.
Ok, for the purest in the crowd, Comisky Cemetery is on the west side of Lyon County Road A. That puts it about 30 feet inside of the Morris County line. However, the town of Comisky sat just to the east and south of the Cemetery. Now with that said, lets move on and if someone in Morris County someday wants to do a Morris County series, we will have two caches here to play with.
As the railroads pushed across the plains of what was Kansas, they were given government right a ways. Back in the 1800’s things were not that much different when working with the government than they are today. The catch for the railroads were that they were more or less required to place a depot approximately every 7 to 10 miles along the tracks. (The estimated distance a person could make it to a depot and back home again in one day by horse and buggy.)
If you start at the east edge of Lyon County you will find the railroad towns Miller, Admire, Bushong, Comisky along the Missouri Pacific line. The town of Allen was not really a railroad town. The Allen Post Office was up on the Santa Fe Trail, north and east of where Allen currently sits. However, when the railroad did not come to Allen, Allen came to the railroad.
All four of the railroad towns did fairly well for a period of time but with the coming of the automobile and quick trips to the bigger towns around them, their populations started to shrink. The railroads quit stopping for passengers, cattle and grain were taken by truck, and finally the tracks have even been pulled up. Miller, Admire, and Bushong are still hanging on for now, but Comisky has all but disappeared.
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