Brief History from
Kansas State Historical Society:
Clinton Carter
Hutchinson; Lewis M. Thomas; John Hart; J.
H. D. Rosan; and Charles Street organized
Reno County on
January 1, 1872. The city of
Hutchinson was incorporated on August 15,
1872. Pretty Prairie, Arlington,
Partridge,
Willowbrook, Haven, Langdon, Buhler,
Turon, Nickerson, Plevna, South
Hutchinson, Sylvia and Abbyville are also
cities in
the county. The county was named for
Major General Jesse Lee Reno, Union army,
killed in the Battle of South Mountain in
1862.
The first organized
church was the Hutchinson Methodist
established in 1872. The first church
building was the Hutchinson
Presbyterian constructed in 1873.
Hutchinson, the home of the official State
Fair, established a county fair about
1873. The
first school was formed in 1864
while Reno County was still part of Marion
County. School District 1, established in
Hutchinson in 1872, covered the
entire county.
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