Torriero, E.A.,
Kansas Town Looking for New Wave of Settlers. E.A. Torriero. - Chicago Tribune, 2004. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Article 35, Environment, 1522-3205; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Originally Published: Kansas Town Looking for New Wave of Settlers, April 15, 2004; pp. n.p..
"With hundreds of ghost towns dotting the Great Plains, and more communities heading toward extinction, Marquette, Kan., could see death on the horizon. Barely a house per year was being built, with the town's population dwindling to about 600. Marquette's once-proud high school closed long ago, in 1985. The elementary school was in peril, with enrollment dragging because there were few new families. Town council members knew that if Marquette lost its only school, its future would be in question. Out of desperation, the council took an idea from history and decided to give part of the town away. For $100,000, the town leadership bought 50 acres on the western edge of Marquette and advertised for comers to build houses on free land, as pioneering homesteaders once did in the 1800s." (CHICAGO TRIBUNE) This article profiles "the first significant in-migration" program "to the Great Plains in generations."
1522-3205;
Land grants
Migration--Internal
Return migration
Rural population
Great Plains
Kansas
AC1.S5
050
Kansas Town Looking for New Wave of Settlers. E.A. Torriero. - Chicago Tribune, 2004. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Article 35, Environment, 1522-3205; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Originally Published: Kansas Town Looking for New Wave of Settlers, April 15, 2004; pp. n.p..
"With hundreds of ghost towns dotting the Great Plains, and more communities heading toward extinction, Marquette, Kan., could see death on the horizon. Barely a house per year was being built, with the town's population dwindling to about 600. Marquette's once-proud high school closed long ago, in 1985. The elementary school was in peril, with enrollment dragging because there were few new families. Town council members knew that if Marquette lost its only school, its future would be in question. Out of desperation, the council took an idea from history and decided to give part of the town away. For $100,000, the town leadership bought 50 acres on the western edge of Marquette and advertised for comers to build houses on free land, as pioneering homesteaders once did in the 1800s." (CHICAGO TRIBUNE) This article profiles "the first significant in-migration" program "to the Great Plains in generations."
1522-3205;
Land grants
Migration--Internal
Return migration
Rural population
Great Plains
Kansas
AC1.S5
050