The following is an excerpt from William G. Cutler's "History of the State of Kansas" (1883), Montgomery County, part 12. "Cherryvale [Labette County] was laid off as a town site in May, 1871, by the Kansas City, Lawrence and Southern Kansas Railway Company, and is situated in the eastern part of Montgomery county, about ten miles east of the city of Independence. The land, upon which the place was built, was originally taken as a claim, by Joseph Wise..." Cutler's history can be found on the Internet at: http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/kancoll/books/cutler Frank Wise