Kensington, one of the incorporated towns of Smith county, is located in Cedar township on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R. R., 14 miles west of Smith Center, the county seat. It has 2 banks, a weekly newspaper (the Mirror), a large number of retail stores, 4 churches, telegraph and express offices, and an international money order postoffice with three rural routes. It was settled in 1888. Kensington became a city of the third class in 1900. The population in 1910 was 497.
Page 68 from volume II 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 July 2002 by Carolyn Ward.
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