Rush Center, one of the leading towns of Rush county, formerly the seat of justice, is located in Center township on Walnut creek and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R., 4 miles south of La Crosse, the county seat. It has a bank, a weekly newspaper (the Breeze), a mill and grain elevator, a number of retail establishments, telegraph and express offices, and a money order postoffice with two rural routes. The population in 1910 was 250. The town was one of the earliest in the county, founded about 1873 and made the temporary county seat in 1874, remaining so until 1877. For the next ten years it retained the county records more than half the time. In 1886 the town claimed 1,000 population. It then had 2 banks and a newspaper.
Page 611 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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