The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗On March 19, 1874, a post office was established in Hillsborough, Kansas. It was later reestablished on April 20 of the same year as Dunlap, Kansas. This was named after an Indian agent representing the Kanza tribe named Joseph Gage Dunlap who had founded the town in 1869 once the Kanza tribe had migrated to Oklahoma. The town grew slowly after its founding. The town really started to take off when former slave Benjamin "Pap" Singleton came to town in the spring of 1878. Here he formed Singleton's Colony, which consisted of 200 black families. Between 1877 and 1879, hundreds followed Singleton to Kansas. These people are known as Exodusters.
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Start Dunlap’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Dunlap’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Dunlap, decade by decade
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1 historic place in Dunlap
1 place in Dunlap is on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
Where they are
When they were 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 (4). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.