![]() The county seat was subsequently removed to Emporia, where it has since remained. The county seat was first established at Americus, the first court house was built, and the first court held there. The county was originally called Breckenridge, but was changed to Lyon, in honor of General Nathaniel Lyon, killed at the battle of Wilson's Creek. First post office: at, or near, where Emporia is now located, 1856, John Fowler, postmaster. First birth: a child, (initials unknown), of a family by the name of Hennick, 1856. First marriage in the county: Charles Carver and Sarah Vangundy, January, 1856. ![]() Pigman, two miles southeast of Emporia, on the Cottonwood river, and on what was known as the Columbia town site. The first business established was a small country store, by James H. Fraker, and was known as "Humphrey's school house" the first school house was built in Emporia in 1865, and is now known as the Constitution street school house. First district school house was built in 1863, on the southwest corner of Section 17, Town. Lane delivered the first public address in it, standing on a carpenter's work bench. ![]() The first church building was erected in 1859, in the city of Emporia, by the Christian denomination, and James H. Fowler and family, on the Cottonwood river, about two miles from where the city of Emporia is now located. The first settlement in Lyon county was made in 1855, by Curtis Hiatt and family, and J. ![]()
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