About Spring Hill, Kansas

Spring Hill is a city of 7,952 people in Johnson County, about ten miles south of Olathe. James B. Hovey reached the site in March 1857, and William Mavity arrived two weeks later to claim the ground where the depot would one day stand. Hovey and E. F. Davis held the town site together and had it surveyed on May 18, 1857, and Hovey named it for Spring Hill near Mobile, Alabama, a town he thought was one of the most beautiful anywhere.

That summer Hovey put up the first building, the Spring Hill Hotel, and when the post office opened in the fall he became its first postmaster. In January 1858 the owners of the site formed a town company and elected Hovey president. The Methodists organized that spring, the first schoolhouse went up, and Mrs. Duvall taught the first school there that summer.

“Being somewhat enthusiastic in my estimation of its future, it having all advantages of timber and water, and on a line that must be traveled between Olathe and Paola, I concluded to myself, as there was no one else to conclude with, that this was a good place for a town.”
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  • The depot that came backWhen the railroad reached the county in 1869, its engineers wanted Spring Hill to pay the $15,000 cost of cutting through rock to the hilltop town. The town refused, so the tracks ran a half mile east and the station went to Ocheltree, two miles north, where people had to fetch their mail.
  • Kansas's first woman doctorCelia Ann Dayton, a doctor from Vermont, moved to Spring Hill in January 1859 and became the first woman to practice medicine in Kansas. Her adopted son Hiram Eugene, also a doctor, was killed in January 1862 after he was found out as a Union spy. That same year she divorced her husband, a rare step at the time. She often helped Black refugees and is said to have worked with the Underground Railroad.
  • A bluff against QuantrillIn the fall of 1862, Quantrill's Raiders were headed for Spring Hill when a farmer met them on the road and calmly told them the town was full of soldiers. There were none, but the raiders turned away. They returned in 1863, looted the town's businesses and robbed nearby farmers, and at least one resident died.
  • The Standard Mills of 1871Miller, Gristy & Jenkinson built the Standard Mills in 1871 for $25,000. The mill rose three stories over its basement, ran four sets of buhrs and could grind eighty barrels of flour in twenty-four hours. H. L. McLachlin & Bro. took it over on June 1, 1882.
  • The tornado of May 20, 1957Around 7:00 p.m., the F5 Ruskin Heights tornado tore through Spring Hill, wrecking the Elston Steel Factory, 21 homes and 18 barns and damaging trees and gravestones in the cemetery. The town's only deaths were Isam and Barbara Davis and their young daughters, Tamara and Pamela, who were caught as they ran for their station wagon. Davis Street carries the family's name.

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Names on the Spring Hill map

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Places and landmarks2

  • Spring Hill City Hall
  • Bonita

Streets and roads85

  • West 215th Street
  • West South Street
  • South Street
  • East Nichols Street
  • South Webster Street
  • Webster Street
  • Frank Street
  • Braun Street
  • East Hale Street
  • Woodland Road
  • 215th Street
  • Columbia Road
  • West 227th Street
  • Main Street
  • West Johnson Street
  • Lone Elm Road
  • South Renner Road
  • West 199th Street
  • 207th Street
  • 191st Street
  • South Lone Elm Road
  • Ridgeview Road
  • West 223rd Street
  • Victory Road
  • Lincoln Street
  • West 175th Street
  • Skyview Lane
  • Franklin Street
  • Sycamore Drive
  • West North Street
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  • West Nichols Street
  • Roosevelt Street
  • 183rd Street
  • West Spring Street
  • 226th Street
  • 220th Street
  • West Hale Street
  • West Allen Street
  • Barker Road
  • 224th Street
  • County Line Road
  • Norton Street
  • Old Kc Road
  • 217th Street
  • Vista Drive
  • Barker Street
  • Theden Street
  • Crestone
  • South Main Street
  • 199th Street
  • Milridge Street
  • Wilson Street
  • North Lincoln Street
  • 219th Terrace
  • Harrison Street
  • West 220th Terrace
  • West 193rd Terrace
  • South Harrison Street
  • West 210th Street
  • Veterans Lane
  • West 189th Street
  • Race Street
  • West 201st Street
  • 199th Terrace
  • Palisade Street
  • 221st Street
  • A-Line Drive
  • 225th Street
  • 224th Terrace
  • Barstow Street
  • Noble Street
  • East Wilson Street
  • North Webster Street
  • Emerald Street
  • Belford Street
  • Millridge Street
  • North Main Street
  • North Harrison Street
  • Madison Street
  • West 209th Street
  • West 190th Terrace
  • Woodland Lane
  • Clubhouse Drive
  • 193rd Street
  • West 216th Street

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