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Ellis, KS - History
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Welcome to the Ellis Home page. The Ellis Home page provides as much information as possible on Ellis. Knowing Ellis’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Ellis’s Home page, you will also find Ellis’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Ellis has a population of 2226. 52.2% of Ellis’s inhabitants are Male, and 47.8 are female. 56.2% of Ellis is married and 81.4% own their own home. The Average Home price is $130,696, and the average rent is $761. Household median income in Ellis is $55,441, and the individual median income is $32,969. Ellis’s Ethnic is the following: White(97.7%), Hispanic(2%), Multiple(0.9%), Pacific(0.7%), Black(0.5%), Native(0.2%).
The Kansas Pacific Railway built a water station at the site of present-day Ellis in 1867 and then purchased the site under the Homestead Act. Three years later, in 1870, the U.S. Post Office Department opened a post office at Ellis, marking the town's foundation. Kansas Pacific laid out the town in 1873, establishing a depot, a hotel, and a few shops.
That same year, settlers from Syracuse, New York, and later from Louisville, Kentucky, arrived to work for the railroad. The first church opened in Ellis in 1873, the first school in 1874. Starting in 1875 and for the rest of the 1870s, Ellis was a cowtown, serving as a shipping point for cattle herds from the south.
Bukovina Germans began settling in the area in 1886. Ellis incorporated as a city in January 1888.Long ago, Ellis (as well as Hays) was once a sundown town, where African Americans were not welcome after dark.
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