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1106 N. 155th Street
Basehor, KS 66007 |
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Basehor is built on a small part of a large tract of land ceded to the Delaware Indians by the United States government on September 24, 1829, in exchange for extensive Delaware holdings in the State of Indiana. The Delawares held the land, or at least parts of it, until the 1860's when the westward expansion of the white man's civilization began to encroach upon the Indian's property. On July 14, 1866, what was left of the Delaware lands, then referred to as the Delaware Diminished Reserve, was offered for sale by the Secretary of the Interior of the United States at not less than $2.50 per acre. The now defunct Leavenworth, Pawnee, and Western Railroad Company subsequently bought all of the remaining land on January 7, 1868.
In 1861, the United States and the Delaware Tribe of Indians made a treaty under which the Leavenworth, Pawnee, and Western Railroad Co., a Kansas Corporation, was permitted to purchase lands of the Delaware Tribe in Leavenworth, Wyandotte, and Jefferson Counties in Kansas, and the agreement for the purchase was made soon after. Abstracts of the land upon which Basehor now stands show that the first individuals to own it were Thomas S. and Mary Z. Townes, who bought it from the railroad in 1873, mortgaged it to Ephraim Basehor in the same year, and sold the 160 acres that comprise most of the present day town site to Basehor on January 9, 1874, for $3,650.
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