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.

Oak Mills, one of the earliest settlements of Atchison county, is located on the Missouri river and the Missouri Pacific R. R. 10 miles southeast of Atchison. The first settlers came in June, 1854, from Iatan, Mo. The following year a postoffice was established and during the years of river traffic it was a town of some consequence. At the present time it has several stores, a money order postoffice and telegraph station. In 1910 the population was 86.

Page 379 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.