Roughton, who used it as a residence and established the first store in Jetmore. That year, the Haun family moved one mile outside Jetmore and rented their house in town to C. and Elizabeth Haun platted and laid out the original townsite.

The house was also used as a community center, Sunday School classes, and social events. Frush served as the first postmaster.įrom early 1881 to the spring of 1882, the county commissioners leased the east upstairs room of the Haun house for county offices and a courtroom. On May 20, 1880, the Hodgeman Center Post Office, two and a half miles away, was moved to Jetmore, and W.A.

The name of Buckner was changed to Jetmore in early 1880 in honor of Colonel Abraham Buckles Jetmore, a lawyer from Topeka, who was instrumental in securing a railroad line through the city and arranging for it to become the county seat. The town well was dug at the intersection of Main and Highway Streets. The third building was a stone building on the East side of Main Street. This building was used to house the county offices. The second building in Jetmore was a small frame building that was moved in on skids from Hodgeman Center. In late 1879, a group from Buckner went to Hodgeman Center, gathered the county records, and brought them to the Haun House in Buckner. Haun circulated the first Issue of the Buckner Independent newspaper.

On November 4, 1879, the people voted at the general election for the location of a permanent county seat, with the following result: Buckner, 199 Marena, 107 Hodgeman Center, 40 Fordham, 5. This building still stands and is now part of the Haun Museum. The two-story building held their home on the lower level, and the first newspaper in the county was established in an upstairs office. and Elizabeth Best Haun, who arrived in Hodgeman County from Clinton, Iowa, in 1878, when the county was just being organized. The first building erected in Jetmore was the Haun House on the West side of Main Street. The Haun House in Jetmore, Kansas, by Kathy Alexander.

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