Beaumont, KS: Frisco Water Tower and Depot

Tower: (Satellite)

Depot: (Satellite)

Richard A Boyd posted seven photos with the comment: "This wooden water tower, identified as the only one like it still in existence, is located along the old (abandoned) Frisco (St Louis & San Francisco Railway) right-of-way in Beaumont, Kansas. Beaumont is just off of US-400 east of Wichita Kansas."

Dennis DeBruler shared

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Darryl Robert posted two photos with the comment: "The last frisco water tower still standing at beamount ks"

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[Using Street View, I noticed there are some more of these green historical markers. But I wasn't able to read them.]

Depot

Street View, Dec 2023

Richard Crabtree posted four images with the comment:

Here we are at the Frisco Depot in Beaumont Kansas.

The surrounding area is farm land, settled by ranchers and farmers after the Civil War. Homesteaders from Missouri, Iowa, Tennessee, and other eastern states came because of an abundance of cheap land.

The town site was first a stop on the stagecoach route between Fredonia and Wichita. In 1879 Edwin and Emma Russell built the Summit Hotel, later renamed as the Beaumont Hotel.

In 1885 the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad, better known as the Frisco, established Beaumont as a railroad town. One line of tracks ran east and west, connecting St. Louis with Wichita.

A spur was added later going south from Beaumont though Latham and on to the Oklahoma border. A roundhouse was built in 1890 across from the Summit Hotel, and employed 90 people. The water tower, built in 1885, stands across from the hotel and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Because of the rich bluestem grass, the area was used as staging area to ship cattle back east.

Photo 1) Frisco Depot in Beaumont Kansas with Frisco No. 1000 4-6-2 Pacific Class built by Brooks Locomotive Works in 1904 Frisco Depot in Beaumont Kansas circa 1910

Photo 2) Frisco Depot in Beaumont Kansas circa 1910

Photo 3) Beaumont Kansas & Frisco Depot Map 1886

Photo 4)Frisco Depot in Beaumont Kansas Floor plan ~ MSU Digital Library

Jim Kelling shared with the comment: "Frisco Lines depot in Beaumont Kansas."

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