Ardie & Greg Love your work on old Kansas towns. Do you have anything on Devizes, Kansas. I have some pictures that are recent but I would like to find out about the area including the cemetary where some of my Shaw ancestors are burried. Ken -----Original Message----- From: Ardie & Greg Grimes <agrimes@inetnebr.com> To: KSNORTON-L@rootsweb.com <KSNORTON-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, April 23, 2000 8:27 PM Subject: [KSNORTON] Defunct Norton County towns - Croco >Croco Post Office was established 05 Sept 1881 and discontinued 08 June >1883. The first postmaster was James Blue. > >Croco is shown on the map included in William G. Cutler's History of the >State of Kansas, first published in 1883 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL. >It is located in Rock Branch township in the northwestern part of the >county. See the map at >http://history.cc.ukans.edu/carrie/kancoll/graphics/maps/norton.htm > >I speculate that Croco was named for William H. Croco came to Norton >County in 1878 and was Sheriff from 1897 - 1899. He was under-sheriff at >the time F. M. Lockard's book "The History of the Early Settlement of >Norton County, Kansas" was published in 1894. > >If you have any further information on Croco, please share it with us >all. Thanks, Ardie > > >==== KSNORTON Mailing List ==== >To subscribe to the list, send a NEW e-mail >message to: KSNORTON-L-request@rootsweb.com or >KSNORTON-D-request@rootsweb.com (for digest mode) >with only one word in the body: subscribe > >============================== >Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. >RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. >http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi >