History of Herington, Kansas

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In the spring of 1881 Monroe Davis Herington, with his family, came from Illinois and settled in the southeast corner of Dickinson County, and began purchasing land in Dickinson and Morris counties.

The town of Herington, Kansas was founded by Monroe Davis Herington who in the fall of 1884 laid out the town (filed plat spring of 1885) on 40 acres of his 2,000-acre ranch and named it after himself.

When the Missouri Pacific Railroad came his way in 1885, he provided inducement with offers of land and cash. The Missouri Pacific Railroad was built through Dickinson county and the town of Herington, Kansas came into being.

M. D. Herington approached Mr. Marcus A. Low, president of the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway, and offered to guarantee the CK&N bonds in two counties and to buy the right of way through his township if the Rock Island line would be routed through his town.

Herington, Kansas subsequently developed as an important railroad junction and terminal point.

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