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Claflin, KS - History
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Welcome to the Claflin Home page. The Claflin Home page provides as much information as possible on Claflin. Knowing Claflin’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Claflin’s Home page, you will also find Claflin’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Claflin has a population of 439. 52.6% of Claflin’s inhabitants are Male, and 47.4 are female. 48.5% of Claflin is married and 82.1% own their own home. The Average Home price is $66,900, and the average rent is $511. Household median income in Claflin is $43,516, and the individual median income is $26,339. Claflin’s Ethnic is the following: White(100%), Hispanic(1.4%).
Prior to American expansion and occupation, the region was controlled by Cheyenne, Pawnee, and Kiowa tribes. The Santa Fe Trail contributed to American settlement in Barton County, as it did throughout Kansas and much of the southern Great Plains. The first settlement claim recorded in the area of Claflin was made by George Platt in 1870.
This claim was divided and re-entered, eventually being sold to J. H. Williamson in 1875, and becoming the town of Claflin. The community was officially organized in response to Missouri Pacific Railroad plans for a branch line to come through the area. Tracks were laid by 1887.The station, on the south side of the tracks, was originally named Giles City after landowner Stelle Giles.
Farmer and landowner William Albro Giles, son of Stella Giles, did not sell the 40 acres desired by the town company for building a town on the south side of the tracks. The land for the town was purchased on the north side of the tracks from J. H. Williamson. Judge Oliver Perry Hamilton surveyed the land and named the town Claflin, after his wife, Adelia Maria Claflin.
The Claflin Town Company, with Stelle Giles as President, filed the townsite with the Barton County Register of Deeds on March 31, 1887.The first official resident of Claflin was Robert Leslie Hamilton, who built and operated the S. S. Chatten Lumber Company. Other early residents include: Mel Cummings, railroad agent; George Norris; J.
H. Cannon, store owner, banker, undertaker; M. C. Elmore, hardware store owner; Cas Dermitt, cafe owner; A. A. German, elevator operator; Charles Bucker, blacksmith; Charles Vert, publisher of the Claflin Clarion.The city was incorporated by order of the Barton County Commissioners on July 18, 1901, and the first election was held on August 2, 1901.
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