Transcribed from volume I of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar.

Central College, located at Enterprise, Dickinson county, was founded by six citizens of that city, who purchased the site and erected a three-story stone building 65 by 75 feet, in which was opened "Harrison Normal College." On July 10, 1891, the founders met with the Central College Association, to which the property was transferred, and the charter of Central College was filed on the 16th. The institution was conducted under the name of Central College until in 1896, when it was turned over to the western conference of the German Methodist church, and the name was changed to Enterprise Normal Academy.

Page 306 from volume I of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed May 2002 by Carolyn Ward.