Sharon Springs, Wallace Co., Kansas

Sharon Springs was originally called Eagle Tail after the name of the creek running through the townsite, and traces its beginnings to 1869 when the railroad was being constructed across Wallace County. In 1886, the name was changed to Sharon Springs after the town in Schoharie Co., New York, from which the founders came.       

On the 1880 US Census, there are four Volga German men recorded as living in Wallace, working for the railroad, but it is believed that none of them ever really settled in the county. As early as 1922, there were Volga German families living in Wallace County and in the 1930s, a number of Volga German families moved to Wallace County, most from Ellis and Trego Counties in Kansas.       

For many decades, there was also a Mennonite community in Wallace County, Kansas.