Editing Cambridge, Kansas (section)

==History==
Like many communities in [[Kansas]], Cambridge owes its existence to a railroad. When the [[List of Kansas railroads|Kansas City, Lawrence & Southern Railroad]] was built a mile south of Lazette, a new site was organized by [[Benjamin H. Clover]] and plotted on May 3, 1880 and it was named '''Cambridge''' after [[Cambridge University]], in England.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=4505 | title=Profile for Cambridge, Kansas | publisher=[[ePodunk]] | accessdate=7 June 2014 | archive-date=15 July 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715001920/http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=4505 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=BENJAMIN H. CLOVER. |url=http://www.ausbcomp.com/~bbott/wortman/archive2005/CloverBH.htm |access-date=2023-04-05 |website=www.ausbcomp.com}}</ref> The first post office in Cambridge was established on January 30, 1880.<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 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009131700/http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county%3ACL |archivedate=October 9, 2013 }}</ref>

On December 15, 1880 the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway acquired nearly all the stock of the [[List of Kansas railroads|Kansas City, Lawrence & Southern Railroad]] and operated the railroad awhile as the [[List of Kansas railroads|Southern Kansas Railroad]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://tacnet.missouri.org/history/railroads/kcfsm.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2015-11-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303232017/http://tacnet.missouri.org/history/railroads/kcfsm.html |archive-date=2016-03-03 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Cambridge was a station and shipping point on the [[Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway]].<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_o8X5krq3fP8C | 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=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_o8X5krq3fP8C/page/n270 274]}}</ref>

The [[Cambridge Public Emergency Radio Tower]] was mooted as the location for one of two "control stations" of the [[WGU-20|Decision Information Distribution System]], which would be used to alert the public of an enemy attack (the other was to have been in [[Ault, Colorado]].) The control stations would send the "go" signal to ten distribution stations across the country that would then sign on and play taped messages to the public.