Stull, Kansas
| Stull, Kansas | |
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| Unincorporated community | |
A view of Stull, facing south. The United Methodist Church is on the left, and an abandoned bait shop is on the right (2009).
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| Coordinates: 38°58′16″N 95°27′22″W / 38.97111°N 95.45611°WCoordinates: 38°58′16″N 95°27′22″W / 38.97111°N 95.45611°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Kansas |
| County | Douglas |
| Elevation | 938 ft (286 m) |
| Time zone | CST (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| Area code | 785 |
| FIPS code | 20-68725 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0479114 |
Stull is an unincorporated community in Douglas County, Kansas, United States.
When the community was founded, it was originally called Deer Creek. The area was settled mainly by people of German ancestry, mainly Pennsylvania Dutch. By 1857, six families were living in the vicinity. Descendants of the original founders still reside in the community. In 1859, the settlers organized the Evangelical Emmanuel Church and by 1867 the members had collected enough funds to construct a stone church on land donated by Jacob Hildenbrand for that purpose and a cemetery. Until 1908, the sermons were preached in German.
On April 27, 1899, a post office was established in the small community. It closed in 1903. The postmaster, Sylvester Stull, nevertheless earned the respect of those he had served, and the community decided to rename their hamlet after him. The small community never grew to be larger than about fifty individuals. And while a number of businesses were established in the area, most were short-lived. The exception to this was the Louk & Kraft grocery store, which was established in the early 1900s and lasted until 1955.
In the early 1920s, plans for a bank and an electric railway extension through Lawrence to Emporia were cancelled.
In the early 20th century, Stull suffered two tragedies. A young boy was found burned to death after his father had finished burning a field and a man was found hanging from a tree after going missing.
By the turn of the 21st century, the eastern wall of Evangelical Emmanuel Church had collapse, and in early 2002, the church's western wall also caved in following a windstorm. In March of that year, the structure was demolished. Following the building's destruction, locals were unsure who had approved the razing, but it was eventually revealed that John Haase, a Lecompton resident who owned the land upon where the church was located, had authorized the demolition. Haase had been contacted a few days before by the Douglas County sheriff's department, who expressed their worry that the abandoned structure was at risk of collapsing.
Stull is located at 38°58′16″N 95°27′32″W / 38.97111°N 95.45889°W (38.9711124, -95.4560872), at the corner of North 1600 Road (
CR-442) and East 250 Road (
CR-1023) in Douglas County, which is 7 miles west of Lawrence and 10 miles east of Topeka.
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