Brief History from Kansas
State Historical Society:
Douglas County
contains the cities of Eudora, Lawrence,
Lecompton and Baldwin City. It was one of
the original 33 counties
organized by the Territorial
Legislature in 1855 and was organized on
September 24, 1855, by Frederick Chouteau;
F. W.
Lunkins; A. R. Harper; Dr. Abram
Still; L. B. Wallace; Clark Stearns; A. B.
and N. E. Wade; Joseph J. Eberhart;
Napoleon N.
Blanton; A. W. and A. C. Glenn; M.
S. Winter; George Cutler; F. B. Varnum;
Robert and Richard Pierson; and William
Harper. The First Territorial
Legislature named the county for Stephen
A. Douglas, the U. S. Senator from
Illinois responsible
for the Kansas-Nebraska Bill in
1854.
The first church in
the county was the Lawrence Plymouth
Congregational Church founded in 1854. The
first county fair was
held in 1858, and the fair
continues. The first school district was
founded in Lawrence, in July, 1855. The
first school was
opened in Lawrence on January 16,
1855.
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