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Encyclopedia Britannica



WINFIELD

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 729 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WIL-YAK
WINFIELD , a city and the county-seat of Cowley county, Kansas, U.S.A., in the S.
part
  of the state, on the
Walnut
  river,about 4o m. S.S.E. of Wichita. Pop. (189o) 5184; (1900) 5554, of whom 203 were foreign born and 282 were negroes; (1905) 7845; (1910) 6700. It is served by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, the Missouri Pacific, and the St Louis & San Francisco railways, and is connected by electric line with Arkansas City, Arkansas. In the city are St John's Lutheran College (1893), the
South
 -west Kansas College (Methodist Episcopal, opened in 1886), St Mary's
Hospital
 
    See Also:
and Training School (1898), Winfield
Hospital
 
    See Also:
(1900), a Lutheran orphans'
home
  and a State School for Feeble-minded Youth.
Island
  Park (5o acres) is the
meeting
 -place of a summer Chautauqua. Winfield is a
supply
  and distributing point for a
rich
  farming country, in which large quantities of wheat and alfalfa are raised. Limestone is quarried near the city, and natural gas is found in the vicinity and piped in from eastern fields for general use in the city. The municipality owns and operates the waterworks and the electric-lighting plant. Winfield was settled in 187o and incorporated in 1871.


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