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North Newton: Bethel College Administration Building The Administration Building at Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas.

Newton

Kansas, United States
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Newton, city, seat (1872) of Harvey county, central Kansas, U.S. Founded in 1871 and named for Newton, Massachusetts, it was a railhead for the Chisholm Trail cattle drives from 1871 to 1873, when it was designated a division point of the Santa Fe Railroad. In the 1870s Russian Mennonite settlers began raising Turkey Red hard winter wheat brought from their homeland, and this variety became Kansas’s principal agricultural product. Newton is now a trading and...

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