Garden Plain Township Sedgwick County Kansas Genealogy Trails

Garden Plain

Garden Plain Township, lying directly west of Wichita about twelve miles, is the center of a very fine agricultural region. Its earliest settlers were U. B. Bryan, John Fletcher, and O. S. Northrop. The township is watered by several tributaries of the Ninnescah River, among them Clear Creek and Polecat. The township has a fine church organization, the Mount Olive Baptist, besides circuit preaching in several schoolhouses. Lamont is the postoffice. School districts Nos. 8, 37 and 77, each have fine comfortable buildings and are arranged with reference to settlements, so as to afford the greatest convenience to scholars as to distance. N. M. Southwick organized it, and has one of the finest improved farms west of Wichita, with fine orchards, grove and convenient outbuildings, barn, granary, etc., aside from a good residence building. Garden Plain is as well adapted to stock raising and fruit raising. Crops of all kinds are grown with profit in season. The township was organized in July, 1874. Population, 399; valuation of property, $111,300. (William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas, Sedgwick County, Part 2, Township Sketches)

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