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• The History of Johnson County, by Ed Blair (transcription)

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  The first sixty years of the organized Johnson County, Kansas is documented and illuminated in this transcription of Blair's comprehensive 1915 history.

• Chapter 2 - The History of Johnson County: Indian Missions, by Ed Blair (transcription)

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  This chapter of Blair's book focuses on the many missions working to "civilize" both Native Americans who had been sent to this part of Kansas after expulsion from their homelands farther east and those people native to Kansas. Several missions were…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Chapter 12 - The History of Johnson County: Towns and Cities, by Ed Blair (transcription)

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  This chapter of Blair's book focuses on the incorporation and growth of the smaller organized settlements across Johnson County. Included is discussion of Monticello, Wilder, Chouteau, Holliday, and Zarah.

• 1856 Letter from James Butler Hickok (aka Wild Bill) to Horace D. Hickok

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  The soon-to-be "Wild Bill" Hickok shares his early impressions of the landscape, people, and political situation in Monticello Township. At the time he wrote this letter, "Wild Bill" was living at the farm of early settler James Owen; the Owen farm…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Johnny Mercer, The Pied Pipers - On the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe

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  When the railroad bypassed Monticello town, it was the beginning of the end for its incorporation. But, chin up! Take a ride on the Atchison with Johnny Mercer and the Pied Pipers!

• Shawnee Dispatch: Monticello Township long gone but remains key part of area history

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  Monticello Township was established in 1857 and persisted until 2006 when the entity was formally disorganized. In that span, the township contributed immeasurably to the progress of Kansas.

• The Birth of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad (transcription)

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  This page is a transcription of an article on the progress of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe across eastern Kansas to the Arkansas River that appeared in Kansas Historical Quarterly in Autumn, 1968. The text includes quotes drawn from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Historic sites of Monticello town and township

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  Fancy a tour of Monticello Township's past? Look no further than this outline on the Monticello Community Historical Society's (MCHS) website. The list includes addresses, photos as available, and info on how each site is important to the township's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Monticello Cemetery

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  This public cemetery was established in 1859 after sale by a local man who had received the parcel as bounty land given to former soldiers. The cemetery currently has 262 interments, with the oldest surviving headstone memorializing Clara B.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• 1880 Letter from concerned Monticello town citizen Jennie Piper to Governor St. John

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  Liquor was flowing on election day in Monticello town, and resident Jennie Piper was not going to let it go unheeded. On October 8, 1880, Piper made his discontent known to Governor John Pierce St. John.

• Monticello's Union Cemetery

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  While the formal purchase of this land by the Union Cemetery Company finalized in 1884, graves more than twenty years older show that it had long been an informal burying ground. In 1895 a Civil War monument was erected and Memorial Day celebrations…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Historic Monticello townsite tour

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  According to MCHS, the namesake town of the township was incorporated in 1857, the same year the township itself was established. Its location at the crossroads of several important trails spurred it growth until the railroad superseded overland…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Garrett Farm, present day Garrett Park

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  English stonemason Samuel Garrett came to the Monticello area in 1849, followed in the next decade by three of his brothers. Part of the farm and buildings where Samuel and his Shawnee wife, Betsey Captain, made their home are now Garrett Park.

• Virginia School factsheet

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  Members of the MCHS compiled a brief history of the Virginia School, a one-room school that operated in several different locations in Monticello Township from 1852-1962.

• Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway on American-rails.com

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  For 137 years, the Santa Fe defined life in Monticello Township. Depots in Monticello Township included Wilder and Zarah, but the railroad completed bypassed the township's main settlement in the center when it favored a more northern route.