by
Bradley R. Penka, Rush County Historical Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Rush County, at the south end of Post Rock Country, was organized on December 5, 1874, and named in honor of Capt. Alexander Rush, Company H, of the 2nd Kansas Colored Infantry. The first settlers arrived in 1869 and established homesteads along Walnut Creek near the Fort Hays�Fort Dodge Trail. With...