Bramlette Post Office
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			BRAMLETTE Post Office
 
 	When the Kansas, Missouri & Texas Railway (The Katy) was built 
across the N.E. corner of Woodson County in 1870-'71, the railway put in a 
small siding somewhere in the west half of Section 34-24-17. On 01 December 
1871, a postoffice was established with Alan B. Russ as postmaster. The 
postoffice was given the name of Bramlette and was believed to be named 
for T. E. Bramlette, who was governor of Kentucky. The location of the 
siding was about a mile south of the present Piqua. 
 
   "BRAMLETTE STORE - Dry goods, groceries, boots & shoes at Humboldt    
prices, & all kinds of produce taken in exchange. B.F. Crabb ...       
Bramlette, Kansas."

 	In its heyday, Bramlette seemed to be quite a lively town with a 
post office, depot, general store, school, M.E. Sunday School, a Grange 
and perhaps a blacksmith shop. But it was short-lived. The postoffice was 
discontinued in Oct. 1874. When the new railroad, the St. Louis, Fort 
Scott & Western, now the Missouri Pacific was built east & west thru the 
county from Iola to Yates Center, it intersected the "Katy" railroad a 
mile north of Bramlette. Here a depot & section house was built & became ... 
PIQUA.