Globe, Kansas
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{{Infobox settlement
|name = Globe, Kansas
|settlement_type = Unincorporated community
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|subdivision_name1 = Kansas
|subdivision_type2 = County
|subdivision_name2 = Douglas
|subdivision_type3 = Township
|subdivision_name3 = Marion
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|elevation_ft = 1056
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|timezone = CST
|utc_offset = -6
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|area_code = 785
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|blank1_info = 484892 {{cite gnis2|484892|Globe, Kansas}}
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Globe is an unincorporated community in Douglas County, Kansas, United States. It is located along U.S. Highway 56 in Marion Township. To the west of Globe is the Simmons Point Station.{{cite news|last1=Knox|first1=Ron|title=Time is Running Out for Historic Structure|url=http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2006/may/14/time_running_out/|accessdate=January 28, 2018|work=Lawrence Journal-World|date=May 14, 2006}}
History
Founded in 1857{{endash}}58 along the Santa Fe Trail, Globe was originally known as Marion (named after the Revolutionary War general Francis Marion). The small hamlet had an initial population of 11 people.{{Cite book| publisher = A. T. Andreas| last = Andreas| first = Alfred Theodore| title = History of the State of Kansas| date = 1883|location=Chicago, IL|page=360}} According to Alfred Theodore Andreas's tome History of the State of Kansas (1883), "The improvements made by the town company were few {{en dash}} a town well was dug, a blacksmith shop erected, a store opened by D. Hubbard, and a few dwelling houses built."
On May 8, 1863, a bushwhacker posse led by Dick Yeager stormed through Marion and shot Hubbard in the lungs. He survived the attack, but his house was robbed. (Yeager would serve under William Quantrill a few months later during the infamous Lawrence massacre.){{cite news |last1=Hubbard |first1=D. |title=Reminiscences of the Yeager Raid |url=http://kansashistoricalopencontent.newspapers.com/image/60329117 |accessdate=July 6, 2018 |work=The Olathe Mirror |date=December 3, 1903}}
In 1865, the Union Pacific Railway diverted traffic from the Santa Fe trail, causing the town's population to dwindle.{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iT8yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pOUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6845%2C5701303 | title=Only Few of 45 County Settlements Left | work=Lawrence Daily Journal-World | date=Jun 12, 1961 | accessdate=November 1, 2015 | author=Cleland, Nora | page=13A}} In 1881, the small town's name was changed to Globe. The Marion/Globe post office, opened in 1858, closed in 1867, was reestablished in 1870, closed again in 1894, reopened in 1895, and closed permanently in 1900.{{cite web|url=http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/page:1/county:DG/sort:County.county_name/direction:asc |title=Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961|publisher=Kansas Historical Society |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130310055433/http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/page:1/county:DG/sort:County.county_name/direction:asc |archivedate=March 10, 2013 }}
See also
References
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Further reading
{{See also|Douglas County, Kansas#Further reading|l1=List of books about Douglas County, Kansas}}
External links
- Douglas County maps: [https://www.ksdot.org/Assets/wwwksdotorg/bureaus/burTransPlan/maps/county-pdf/douglas.PDF Current], [https://www.ksdot.org/bureaus/burtransplan/maps/PastPublishedCounty.asp Historic] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224151822/https://www.ksdot.org/bureaus/burtransplan/maps/PastPublishedCounty.asp |date=February 24, 2024 }}, KDOT
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Category:Unincorporated communities in Douglas County, Kansas