Long Island, an incorporated city in Phillips county, is located on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. and Prairie Dog creek, a waterpower stream, 22 miles northwest of Phillipsburg, the county seat. It has 2 banks, a weekly newspaper (the New Leaf), churches, schools, express and telegraph offices, and a money order postoffice with three rural routes. The population, according to the census of 1910, was 291. It is the principal trading and shipping point in the northwestern part of the county.
Page 187 from volume II of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed July 2002 by Carolyn Ward.
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