The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗In exchange for extensive Delaware holdings in the state of Indiana, on September 24, 1829, the United States government ceded a large tract of land to the Delaware Indians. Basehor is built on a small part of this tract. The Delawares held this land, or at least parts of it, until the 1860s. On July 4, 1866, the Secretary of the Interior of the United States was offered for sale what was left of the Delaware lands, then referred to as the Delaware Diminished Reserve, for not less than $2.50 per acre. The Leavenworth, Pawnee, and Western Railroad Company subsequently bought all of the remaining land on January 7, 1886.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Basehor’s history is told.
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2000
Nothing in Basehor is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Basehor has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Frank and Agnes Schmotz Farmstead in Bonner Springs, 3.8 miles away.
Basehor and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.