Manhattan, Kansas, nestled alongside the Kansas River and the Big Blue River, was once known as Boston.
The name Manhattan would come not long after the settlement’s founding.
After the New England Emigrant Aid Company arrived at the Poleska-Canton settlements in the Kansas Territory, another group – this group, with their origin being, Cincinnati, Ohio – became their neighbor.
It was this second group – The Cincinnati and Kansas Land Company – from which our Manhattan name came to be.
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