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Greeley County ghost towns illustrate Horace Greeley legacy
The piece traces how towns across Greeley County sprang from Horace Greeley’s fame as an abolitionist and political figure. It covers Hector, Greeley Center, Horace, Reid, Tribune, and other settlements, their rapid growth then decline as railroads moved, post offices opened and closed, and ghosts rose from ghost towns like Hector and Greeley Center. It notes Fort Hays findings, Coltokan and Astor, and ends with population declines and farmers leaving semiarid land for Holly and beyond.
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Republican Party
Kansas
Union
Greeley
Ulysses S. Grant
WC Gerard
Gerard
Tribune
Chappaqua
Colorado
Kansas County
Horace
Hector
Horace Greeley
C.T. Thompson
Hector Echo
Cheney
Land and Loan
George Chapman
Greeley County
Fort Hays State University
Greeley Center
Greeley Town Co
Fort Hays
Wilde Brothers
Hutchinson
Greeley House
Denver, Memphis and Atlantic Railroad
Whitelaw Reid
New York Tribune
Benjamin Harrison
Whitelaw
Reid
Kansas State Historical Society
Astor
Dents
John Jacob Astor
New Yorker
U.S
Holly
Colo