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Park, Gove Co., Kansas

Includes the following communities
Buffalo Park, Gove Co., Kansas
Park, Gove Co., Kansas
History

Park was founded originally by English and Irish immigrants as a stop on the Union Pacific Railroad known as Buffalo Station. It's first official name was Buffalo Park. In 1898, the name of Park was adopted.

These early immigrants were joined by Germans from the Odessa region of Russia who had originally settled in Texas, and then by Volga German families who were moving west from their orginal settlements in Ellis and Rush Counties.

Volga German Congregations

Sacred Heart Catholic Church

Congregations
Sacred Heart Catholic Church - Park
Sources

- Burkard, Peter L. The History of Sacred Heart Church, Park, Kansas.

Resources

- 1920 Federal Census of Gove County (Eugene Jenkins)
- Sacred Heart Cemetery (findagrave.com)

External Links

Park, Kansas (Wikipedia)

The following Volga German families settled in and around Park:
Bieker
from
Neu-Ober-Monjou
Billinger
from
Herzog
Burgardt
Denning
Depperschmidt
from
Liebental
Dreiling
Engel
from
Ober-Monjou
Feldt
Goetz
from
Herzog
Haffner
Hartmann
Herzog
Holzmeister
Kahler
Kinderknecht
from
Mariental
Koerner
from
Katharinenstadt
Kraft
Kuhn
from
Herzog
Lang
Legleiter
Leiker
from
Ober-Monjou
Linneberger
from
Herzog
Mader
from
Kamenka
Meier
Naab
from
Kamenka
Paul
from
Louis
Richmeier
from
Herzog
Riedel
Rohr
from
Mariental
Roth
from
Kamenka
Schamne
from
Graf
Scheck
from
Herzog
Schmidt
from
Pfeifer
Schoenfeldt
Stecklein
Stramel
from
Kamenka
Untereiner
Wagner
Waldschmidt
from
Ober-Monjou
Weber
Weimer
Werth
from
Schönchen
Wilhelm
Windholz
Wittman
from
Herzog
Wolf
Younger
from
Herzog
Zerr
Ziegler
Zimmerman
from
Schönchen

Colonies

39.112222, -100.3605

Volga Colonies

Migrated From