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.

Zeandale, a village of Riley county, is located on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R. R. in Zeandale township, 8 miles east of Manhattan, the county seat. It is supplied with telegraph and express offices and has a money order postoffice with one rural route. The population in 1910 was 75. The name is taken from the Greek and means corndale. It was named by J. H. Pillsbury, who settled the township in 1855.

Page 954 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.