September 2005 .............

Chetopa Kansas: Located on the Neosho River in Southeast Kansas, close to the Oklahoma border. It's at the Junction of US-166 and US-59 highways.  It is named after the Osage Indian Chief Chetopah and means "Four Horses"  in the dialect. The area was first settled by Indians and white settlers in the early 1840's.  It is known as the "Catfish Capitol of Kansas" and also the "Pecan Capitol of Kansas"  There is a Pecan Festival the third Saturday in November and a Spring Fling in May. Riggs Drug Store has an old time soda fountain, was closed on a Monday when we stopped, but looking in the windows took us back in time.  Chetopa has a museum and three parks. There is also an RV dump station. Current population is 1281.

Humboldt Kansas:  The town was settled in 1857 by German colonists looking for a location for a new town. In 1870 the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad was completed through that portion of Allen county, and the following October until the present time Humboldt is one of the busiest cities of its size in the state. It was incorporated as a city in 1870. It is located in the gas and oil fields, and is a good manufacturing center, with large cement and brick works, an oil refinery, flour mills and elevators. The building below housed a huge wood shop.

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