Plymouth, Kansas
{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Lyon County, Kansas}}
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|settlement_type = Unincorporated community
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|image_caption = Old 1882 schoolhouse (2019)
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|subdivision_name = United States
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|subdivision_name1 = Kansas
|subdivision_type2 = County
|subdivision_name2 = Lyon
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|established_title = Founded
|established_date = 1850s
|established_title1 = Platted
|established_date1 = 1858
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|timezone = CST
|utc_offset = -6
|timezone_DST = CDT
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|postal_code_type = ZIP code
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|area_code = 620
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|blank_info = 20-56900
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Plymouth is an unincorporated community in Lyon County, Kansas, United States. It is located approximately five miles west of the city of Emporia along Road B2.
History
Plymouth was laid out in 1858.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iZO2CL7-JAkC&pg=PA132 | title=History of Emporia and Lyon County, Kansas | publisher=Heritage Books | author=French, Laura M. | year=1929 | pages=132| isbn=9780788403460 }} The first school class was taught in 1862, the first school house was built in 1864. The present old school house was built in 1882.{{Cite web|url=https://kansasoneroomschools.wordpress.com/2019/09/20/plymouth-school/|title = Plymouth School|date = 20 September 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://kansasoneroomschools.blogspot.com/2019/09/plymouth-kansas.html|title = Kansas One Room Schools: Plymouth, Kansas|date = 20 September 2019}}
Plymouth was a station and shipping point on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Qi9cXyTWt9EC | title=Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Volume 2 | publisher=Standard Publishing Company | author=Blackmar, Frank Wilson | year=1912 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Qi9cXyTWt9EC/page/n474 484]}}
A post office was opened in Plymouth in 1858, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1930.{{cite web | url=http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/page:1/county:LY/sort:County.county_name/direction:desc | title=Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961 | publisher=Kansas Historical Society | accessdate=10 June 2014}}
Education
The community is served by Emporia USD 253 public school district.
References
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Further reading
{{See also|Lyon County, Kansas#Further reading|l1=List of books about Lyon County, Kansas}}
External links
- Lyon County maps: [https://www.ksdot.org/Assets/wwwksdotorg/bureaus/burTransPlan/maps/county-pdf/lyon.PDF Current], [https://www.ksdot.org/bureaus/burtransplan/maps/PastPublishedCounty.asp Historic], KDOT
{{Lyon County, Kansas}}
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Category:Unincorporated communities in Lyon County, Kansas
Category:Unincorporated communities in Kansas
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