Transcribed from volume II of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar.

Mahaska, an incorporated city of the third class in Washington county, is located in Union township on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R. R., 20 miles northwest of Washington, the county seat. It has a bank, telegraph and express offices and a money order postoffice with two rural routes. The population in 1910 was 246. It is the principal trading and shipping point for a large agricultural district in Republic and Washington counties.

Pages 211-212 from volume II of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed July 2002 by Carolyn Ward.