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The result was delete. Vanamonde ( Talk) 18:42, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
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Mass-created GNIS permastub from a GNIS listing that itself seems to have been removed from the site. No evidence found that there was ever a village here; just a lone post office that served residents of dispersed farmhouses for 11 years. Passenger pigeon ( talk) 06:34, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Kansas-related deletion discussions. Passenger pigeon ( talk) 06:34, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 08:56, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
- Keep - Seriously? Do you figure the US Postal system set up a post office and named it after one of the residents? There was even an academy there at one time. [1] — Maile ( talk) 18:47, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
- "Do you figure the US Postal system set up a post office and named it after one of the residents?" They did that all the time. Fourth class POs could be anywhere, and were often in people's homes, and it was common if the office was moved to a different house, it was renamed to reflect whose house it was moved to. Please read up on this before you respond to any more of these nominations. I'd particularly suggest reading WP:GNIS. Mangoe ( talk) 23:40, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
- The page you've linked references Hopewell Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania. The references to academies i see there are to ones in Hopewell, Chester County, Pennsylvania and Indiana. There were three Hopewell post offices in Kansas, this one existed only 1879-1890. fiveby( zero) 03:37, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
- delete All actual evidence points to this being a 4th class post office at an isolated farmstead (which is still there). The passing references to an academy by this name are useless because they don't say where it was located, and besides the fact of another Hopewell in a different county (which the maps show actually was a small town), there's nothing saying that the academy was or had to be in a town of the same name. Mangoe ( talk) 23:50, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
References
- ^ Andreas, A. T. (Alfred Theodore) (1883). "History of the state of Kansas : containing a full account of its growth from an uninhabited territory to a wealthy and important state, of its early settlements, its rapid increase in population and the marvelous development of its great natural resources. Also, a supplementary history and description of its counties, cities, towns and villages, their advantages, industries, manufactures and commerce, to which are added biographical sketches and portratis of prominent men and early settlers". Chicago : A.T. Andreas. pp. 577, 679. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗ plicit 12:56, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
- delete see above. fiveby( zero) 03:40, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
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