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Few Residents in Globe, Worden
Farming Common Occupation in Area Small Towns
Sixteen miles southwest of Lawrence, at the dusty crossroads of Highway 56 and County Road 1029, lies a small town called Globe.
Founded in 1857, Globe was once a busy station on the Santa Fe Trail. The Union Pacific built north of the town, brought about its overflow by taking away the overland traffic.
the Globe Store. The present store, built in 1938, is located just a few yards east of the building.
"It has always been known as Globe Store," said Lloyd Housworth, Route 1, Overbrook. Housworth owns the store and sells antiques there.
One of the few buildings constructed was
Housworth said the store was open four or five days a week when he was refinishing and cleaning the staircases.
"People around the area came to the store to get their mail, but the rural delivery changed that," Housworth said.
The population of Globe is eight or thirteen, depending on whether one family is counted, said Mrs. Albert Turner, Route 1, Overbrook. Her husband operates an LP gas depot, and they own a few head of stock cattle.
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Last Remnant
The town of Globe was once a busy Sante Fex Trail停, but now the only business is this store. With the coming of railroads and rural mail delivery, the population of this town south of Lawrence was cut to less than 10%. Most of the residents work and show in either Lawrence or Ottawa.
Clinton Lake Threatens Town
By CARL YOUNG Kansan Staff Writer
When Kansas was a territory that stretched from the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains and Lawrence was a group of hats called Wakarausa, a town company from Ohio was building a town in western Douglas County called Clinton
From 1854 to 1879, Clinton, seven mates west of Lawrence, was at a town of about 600 families. In 1881 he became the city's mayor.
Today Clinton has a population of 31 families, one grocery store and one church.
Clinton survived the Civil War and the malaria that devastated a town in the valley below it, but Clinton citizens are not sure whether it will survive Clinton Lake.
churches, a post office, two stores, a grain mail, a milk factory, a school and a museum.
When Clinton Lake is finished in 1976, the town of Clinton will sit on a peninsula between the two arms of the lake. Most of the families living in Clinton farm the land that was there were farmers.
Twin Mounds' Intent Was Harmonic College
Twin Mounds, located 12 miles southwest of Lawrence, is just that—two mounds with two houses, an old school house and a cemetery.
Dorothy Faust, a twin Mounds resident,
said that when Hiatt planned the town in
1856, he set aside about 80 acres of land for a
college. The college, Faust said, would have
been called the Twin Mounds Harmonic
College.
The town's founder, Henry H. Hiatt, envisioned Twin Mounds as being much more than it is today, but his dreams were never realized.
A pamphlet, issued around 1880 to advertise the college, said, "The location of the College is all that could be asked. Twin Mounds, in the county of Douglas, and the Territory of Kansas, so named from two towns in the region, would be surpassed, either for the beauty or healthiness, by any locality in the West. Add to this, it is in the heart of a rapidly settling
Loren Anderson, Clinton resident, said recently he was in town. The Army Corps of Engineers bought the farmers' land, Anderson said, leaving the farmers no choice but to relocate their homes.
"I've been farming 500 to 600 acres a year," Anderson said. "I've been hauling that land for the past year, but that won't be available for leasing next year. I don't know about the year after."
"Before I could get from here to the east side of Lawrence in 10 minutes on an emergency run," said Anderson, who is also a Douglas County deputy sheriff. "Now it takes me 20 minutes to get to the west side of town."
The Army Corps closed the main blacktop road into Lawrence, Anderson said, and now the residents of Clinton have to drive about 30 miles to get to Lawrence.
Martha Parker, unofficial Clinton historian, agreed with Anderson that the road to victory would not have been a simple one.
The closing of the main road into Lawrence is the immediate problem facing Clinton.
"They closed the blacktop, our main road, a year ago," Parker said. "They haven't even started the other roads yet. It will be four or five years before it's done."
The college never got beyond the pamphlet stage, Faust said, because the town never developed. The railroad, which Hattt owned, was built north of Twin Mounds, he was built north of Twin Mounds, he was
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During the 1880s, Twin Mounds had a grain mill, a church, a one-room school, a general store and a Post Office. Faust said the store and church burned in the early 1900s.
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"Our daughter, Waneta, works at the chancellor's office," said Turner, "and I work at the bookstore during the book rush."
Most of the people around Globe are farmers. They need Ontario for agriculture and supplies. Turner is a farmer.
The town nearest Globe is Worden, three miles to the east. Worden is a little bigger than Globe. It has a church, a gas station and an elementary school.
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The Worden Evangelical Church was established in 1869. The first church was built in 1872. It had to be relocated because it was too old, and a new building was built in 1832.
"The church has an ice cream social every year during July," said Mrs. Roy Reschak.
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Summer brings the tractor pulling season and we travel all over, said Sharon Dwyer, Route S. Lawrence. Her husband, Gerald Beyer, competes at pulls around the state. Those are the ones.
"It's really helped business," Dwyer said.
"We sell gas and auto parts to a lot of the customers."
A few of the people around Worden are farmers and some work in Lawrence. Many of the farmers raise dogs for coon hunting, Dwyer said.
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After the stock is fed during the winter, a few of the farmers come to the station to loaf, Dwyer said. They sit around an old wood-burning stove and talk.
"Some land is being developed near here,
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