The light plant was located at 402 E Ross.
In 1910, two Clearwater residents sold their blacksmith and machine shop to give their attention to management of the first light plant in Clearwater. In 1905, the Home State Bank was granted a charter and in 1928 acquired the deposits of the State Bank. The bank later moved into a building constructed of brick from a brickyard in Clearwater. They bought out the old bank at the corner of Ross and Tracy. A Clearwater resident did not like paying 8% per quarter interest, so in 1899 nine local men started the State Bank. The first bank in Clearwater began around 1885. The first two-year high school class graduated in 1902 and the first four-year high school class graduated in 1909. The first eighth-grade class graduated in April 1895. The second building was built in 1885 and was two-story, four-room brick building. June 22, 1884, arsonists burned the first school. The first school, a one-room building, was built in 1872 on the south side of Ross Avenue just west of the Missouri Pacific railroad tracks. Several factors contributed to the population decline including the drought of 1887, historic run to Oklahoma in 1889, poor crops, and people moved back to Wichita and other areas. Four months later the Order of Incorporation of the city dated Septemreported, “that the Clearwater population is in excess of 2,000.”īy 1900 the population was only 304. Clearwater began to flourish with the Wichita Eagle reporting in early 1885 of close to 700 inhabitants. PopulationĮmigrant families that came to the Clearwater area were Irish, German, Scotch, English, Swiss, Swedish, and Danish. The first Missouri Pacific train came through the new site on Jand the first Santa Fe train came in 1887. As soon as the railroads were surveyed and the station built at the new site, currently Grant and Byers, the people of Clear Water moved and this location became the present site of Clearwater.
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