Transcribed 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.

Pawnee Rock, one of the incorporated towns of Barton county, is located near the historic Pawnee Rock, on the Santa Fe trail. It is a station on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R. 14 miles southwest of Great Bend, the county seat. It has a bank, a weekly newspaper (the Herald), about two dozen retail stores, telegraph and express offices, and a money order postoffice with two rural routes. The population according to the census of 1910 was 458. The town was founded in 1874 by the Arkansas Valley Town company.

Page 457 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.