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.

Olsburg, a village of Pottawatomie county, is located on the Union Pacific R. R. about 14 miles west of Westmoreland, the county seat. It has 2 banks, a weekly newspaper (the Gazette), express and telegraph offices and a money order postoffice with one rural route. All the main lines of business are represented. The population in 1910 was 300. The town and the surrounding country were built up by Swedes.

Page 389 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.