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.

Homewood, a village in the southwest part of Franklin county, is located on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R. 11 miles southwest of Ottawa, the county seat. It has general stores, a public school, a money order postoffice with one rural route, telegraph and express facilities, and in 1910 had a population of 100. Situated in a rich agricultural district, it is the supply and shipping point for the vicinity.

Page 871 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.