The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Beaten to the settlement of Wilson, Kansas by Bohemian colonists, Pennsylvania Dutch settlers from Philadelphia and Lancaster, Pennsylvania established a community on the Kansas Pacific Railway at the future site of Gorham in April 1872. Elijah Dodge Gorham, a settler from Illinois, gave the town its name when he platted it in 1879. Seeking to create a local trading center, he formally established the town in July 1886, gave land for a Catholic Church and cemetery, and started several businesses including a general store, grain elevator, post office, lumberyard, and a coal yard. Additional grain elevators and a stockyard subsequently opened, establishing Gorham as a farming community.
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Start Gorham’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Gorham’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Gorham, decade by decade
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Nothing in Gorham is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Gorham has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Fort Fletcher Stone Arch Bridge in Herzog, 6.4 miles away.
Gorham 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 (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.