A vanished community - its location, enterprise and education

Chalk Mound School, District #23, as it appears today. Photograph by Tom Parish, October, 2015.
The sign above, located at a Chalk area intersection, makes one smile and reflect as to what it was like in Lower Chalk and Upper Chalk.

Chalk, Kansas, once located in Rock Creek Township in Wabaunsee County, developed as a small but active rural community in the late 19th century. Situated within a farming region that depended on near…

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