Editing Burden, Kansas (section)

==History==
In 1879, in anticipation of the coming of the [[Kansas City, Lawrence and Southern Railroad]], a town was surveyed and laid out by a local company. Among its staff was Robert F. Burden, for whom the town is named.<ref name="History">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5zdAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA168 | title=Biennial Report of the Board of Directors of the Kansas State Historical Society | publisher=Kansas State Printing Plant | author=Kansas State Historical Society | year=1916 | pages=168}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=4494 | title=Profile for Burden, Kansas | publisher=[[ePodunk]] | accessdate=7 June 2014}}</ref> The railroad, whose name changed to the [[Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe]], arrived on February 1, 1882, making Burden one of its stations and shipping points.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o8X5krq3fP8C&pg=PA252 | title=Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Embracing Events, Institutions, Industries, Counties, Cities, Towns, Prominent Persons, Etc. | publisher=Standard Publishing Company | author=Blackmar, Frank Wilson | year=1912 | pages=252| isbn=9780722249055 }}</ref>

The early buildings included a [[general store]], drug store, and post office. The post office, called Burdenville until 1884, was established in 1879.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county:CL |title=Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961 (archived) |publisher=Kansas Historical Society |accessdate=6 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009131700/http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county%3ACL |archive-date=October 9, 2013 }}</ref> The first newspaper, printed in 1880, was ''The Enterprise'', with a circulation in 1882 of 900.<ref name="eccchistory.org">{{cite web |url=http://www.eccchistory.org/Burden01.htm |title=New Page 1 |website=www.eccchistory.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030418113957/http://www.eccchistory.org/Burden01.htm |archive-date=2003-04-18}}</ref> A school that had been one mile north of Burden was relocated to the town in the summer of 1881.<ref name="eccchistory.org"/><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20030331033747/http://www.kancoll.org/books/cutler/cowley/cowley-co-p12.html#BURDEN kancoll.com]</ref>