Towns Surrounding Summerfield
A number of communities on the Kansas City, Wyandotte and Northwestern
Railroad got their start from the railroad or felt the community would
prosper from the railroad. Mina and Bookwalter were two of these communities.
They are both gone, ghost towns one will find only in family or historical
pictures and texts. The St. Bridget Community was southeast of Summerfield.
It pre-existed the railroad but the railroads demise certainly had an impact
on its future. The only remnants today of this Irish community is its church
which in 1996 was placed on the Kansas Historical Sites list and in 1997
was placed on the National Historic Sites list. The St. Bridget Historical
Society have their own web site. We are linked to it on this page. When
the railroad collapsed down in 1920, these three towns did not last much
longer.
Mina, Kansas
(About six miles south and east of Summerfield)
St.
Bridget, Kansas
(Two and 1/2 miles south and five east of Summerfield)
Bookwalter,
Nebraska
(Six miles north of Summerfield)