Raymond, one of the old towns of Rice county, is located on the Arkansas river and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R., 12 miles southwest of Lyons, the county seat. It is a shipping point for grain, live stock and other farm produce, and also a trading point for a large agricultural area. It has a bank, all lines of retail establishments, telegraph and express offices, and a money order postoffice with one rural route. The population, according to the census of 1910, was 250. The town was named for Emmaus Raymond, an official of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R.
Page 551 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.
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