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Line 102: Hillsboro was named after John Gillespie Hill, who homesteaded in the area in 1871. Originally '''Hill City''' was the city name; since another city in Kansas already bore that name, it was changed to '''Hillsboro''' on June 20, 1879.<ref name="HillsboroBook"/> A post office was established in '''Risley''' on April 10, 1873 then moved to Hillsboro on August 29, 1879.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county:MN \|title=Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961 (archived) \|publisher=Kansas Historical Society \|access-date=14 June 2014 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009130856/http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county%3AMN \|archive-date=9 October 2013 }}</ref> ~~[[File:Alexanderfeld Village Marker.jpg\|thumb\|center\|Alexanderfeld Village Marker]]~~ The Hillsboro area was settled by [[Russian Mennonite]]s of German extraction beginning in 1874. The first of these settlers established Alexanderfeld Village, a farming village, Southwest of Hillsboro. These settlers brought with them Turkey Red Hard [[winter wheat]], and related wheat varies are still grown throughout the [[Great Plains]] today. Today, the Mennonite Settlement Museum remains to demonstrate the lives of these early settlers. As early as 1875, city leaders of [[Marion, Kansas\|Marion]] held a meeting to consider a branch railroad from [[Florence, Kansas\|Florence]]. In 1878, [[Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway]] and parties from [[Marion County, Kansas\|Marion County]] and [[McPherson County, Kansas\|McPherson County]] chartered the [[Marion and McPherson Railway Company]].<ref name="MarionCountyBook">''Marion County Kansas : Past and Present''; Sondra Van Meter; MB Publishing House; [[LCCN]] 72-92041; 344 pages; 1972.</ref> In 1879, a branch line was built from [[Florence, Kansas\|Florence]] to [[McPherson, Kansas\|McPherson]], in 1880 it was extended to [[Lyons, Kansas\|Lyons]], in 1881 it was extended to [[Ellinwood, Kansas\|Ellinwood]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZIwpAAAAYAAJ Fourth Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners for the Year Ending December 1, 1886 in State of Kansas; Kansas Publishing House; 1886.]</ref> The line was leased and operated by the [[Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway]]. The line from [[Florence, Kansas\|Florence]] to [[Marion, Kansas\|Marion]], was abandoned in 1968.<ref name="Abandon Railway 1968">[http://www.abandonedrails.com/Marion_to_Florence Railway Abandonment 1968]</ref> In 1992, the line from [[Marion, Kansas\|Marion]] to [[McPherson, Kansas\|McPherson]] was sold to [[Central Kansas Railway]]. In 1993, after heavy flood damage, the line from Marion through Hillsboro to McPherson was abandoned and removed. The original branch line connected [[Florence, Kansas\|Florence]], [[Marion, Kansas\|Marion]], [[Canada, Kansas\|Canada]], Hillsboro, [[Lehigh, Kansas\|Lehigh]], [[Canton, Kansas\|Canton]], [[Galva, Kansas\|Galva]], [[McPherson, Kansas\|McPherson]], [[Conway, Kansas\|Conway]], [[Windom, Kansas\|Windom]], [[Little River, Kansas\|Little River]], [[Mitchell, Kansas\|Mitchell]], [[Lyons, Kansas\|Lyons]], [[Chase, Kansas\|Chase]], [[Ellinwood, Kansas\|Ellinwood]].

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