Place:Ellis, Ellis, Kansas, United States

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NameEllis
TypeCity
Coordinates38.936°N 99.559°W
Located inEllis, Kansas, United States
Contained Places
Cemetery
Mount Hope Cemetery
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Ellis is a city in Ellis County, Kansas, United States.[1] As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 1,958.

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History

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The Kansas Pacific Railway built a water station at the site of present-day Ellis in 1867 and then purchased the site under the Homestead Act. Three years later, in 1870, the U.S. Post Office Department opened a post office at Ellis, marking the town's foundation. Kansas Pacific laid out the town in 1873, establishing a depot, a hotel, and a few shops. That same year, settlers from Syracuse, New York, and later from Louisville, Kentucky, arrived to work for the railroad. The first church opened in Ellis in 1873, the first school in 1874. Starting in 1875 and for the rest of the 1870s, Ellis was a cowtown, serving as a shipping point for cattle herds from the south.[2] Bukovina Germans began settling in the area in 1886. Ellis incorporated as a city in January 1888.[2]

Long ago, Ellis (as well as Hays) was once a sundown town, where African Americans were not welcome after dark.

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