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Evansville Kansas ghost town and Comanche Pool history
In Comanche County Kansas Evansville lingered as a ghost town after the Comanche Pool cattle empire formed in the 1870s. Ranchers Jess Evans Wy lie Payne Richard Phillips and Major Andrew Drumm pooled cattle, built a town site with a hotel store and post office, and hoped for a railroad. The pool dissolved by 1883–1886 as taxes settlement and herd laws closed the era, though Evansville persisted with a post office moves and a springfront landscape retained by Dee and Phyllis Scherich who show its remaining ruins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evansville
Comanche County
Gyp Hills
Larry “Dee
Phyllis Scherich
Dee
Merrill
Phyllis
Red Hills
Kansas
Mary Einsel
Jess Evans
Wylie Payne
Richard Phillips
Andrew Drumm
Indian Territory
Texas
Oklahoma Strip
Oklahoma
David Webb
Kansas Heritage Center
Dodge City
Osage
Webb
Evans’ Ranch
Einsel
Medicine Lodge
Kansas State Historical Society
Fred Flats Jr
Rumsey
Alzina Baker
Wesley Grant
Comanche Cattle Pool
W.M. Grant