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Ravanna and Eminence Ghost Towns Recounted in Kansas
Crowds gather at Ravanna site in Cimarron to hear about Ravanna and Eminence, once rival county seats in Garfield County. The talk covers name changes, battles for the county seat, the 1887 election disputes, and the towns’ eventual decline as Garfield County merged into Finney.
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Finney County
Ravanna
Gray County
Cimarron City
Cimarron
John Bull
Kinsley Public Library
Cimarron Library
Candis Hemel
Wichita
Clark Legg
Kalvesta
Kansas
Mason
U.S. Postal Service
Bulltown
Hemel
Cowland
James Cross
Ravenna
Ohio
C.J. “Buffalo
Jones
Garden City
Cuyler
Creola
Kansas State Historical Society
Eminence
Colorado
Kansas Supreme Court
Garfield County
New York Times
Hutchinson News
Garfield County Commission
John Ives
Ed Boots
Pratt
Boots
John Rowan
Tom Reed
Guy
Norman Clark
Clark
Amy Bickel
Kansas Agland
Kansasagland
Kansasghosttowns