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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.

A vanished community - its location, enterprise and education

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 nearby trade routes and access to markets, Chalk occupied a position that connected it to both Eskridge and Council Grove. A primary route through the area, identified by local historian Benetta Foster as the “South West Trail”, served as an early transportation corridor. This road, first composed of sand and later improved with gravel, eventually became part of K-4 Highway in the 1920s. Even in its earliest form, the route allowed for movement of goods and people, including twice-weekly stagecoach service running south from Eskridge toward Council Grove.

Update from the Kansas Capitol

Update from the Kansas Capitol

This past week, the Senate debated and voted on dozens of bills in addition to wrapping up committee work. The legislative session is scheduled to adjourn this coming Friday. This week will be spent largely in conference committees. These are small committees - made up of three Senators and three House members - who are assigned to negotiate differences between the Senate and House versions of bills. After negotiations, the compromise bill is put before the full Senate and the House for a vote.

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