Editing Hope, Kansas (section)

==History==
[[File:Stouffer's Railroad Map of Kansas 1915-1918 Dickinson County.png|thumb|left|1915 Railroad Map of [[Dickinson County, Kansas|Dickinson County]]]]
[[File:There will always be Hope in Kansas.jpg|thumb|Limestone welcome banner in Hope (2017)]]

===Early history===
{{See also|History of Kansas}}
For many [[millennia]], the [[Great Plains]] of [[North America]] was inhabited by [[nomadic]] [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]].  From the 16th century to 18th century, the [[Kingdom of France]] claimed ownership of large parts of [[North America]].  In 1762, after the [[French and Indian War]], France secretly ceded [[New France]] to [[Spain]], per the [[Treaty of Fontainebleau (1762)|Treaty of Fontainebleau]].

In 1802, Spain returned most of the land to France.  In 1803, most of the land that became [[History of Kansas|the state of Kansas]] was acquired by the United States from France as part of the 828,000 square mile [[Louisiana Purchase]] for 2.83 [[Penny (United States coin)|cents]] per [[acre]].

In 1854, the [[Kansas Territory]] was organized, then in 1861 [[Kansas]] became the 34th [[U.S. state]]. In 1857, [[Dickinson County, Kansas|Dickinson County]] was established within the [[Kansas Territory]], which included what became Hope.

===Development===
In 1871, a group of about forty people, led by Newell Thurstin, began planning a townsite, named Hope after one of his sons.{{citation needed|date=November 2012}} Its first post office was established in July 1871.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county:DK |title=Kansas Post Offices, 1828–1961 (archived) |publisher=Kansas Historical Society |access-date=8 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130909023757/http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county%3ADK |archive-date=9 September 2013 }}</ref>

David Jacob Eisenhower, the father of President [[Dwight David Eisenhower]], lived in a {{convert|160|acre|km2|adj=on}} ranch near Hope from 1878 until his enrollment at [[Lane University]] in [[Lecompton, Kansas|Lecompton]], and then he moved to Hope. On March 30, 1885, he and business partner Milton Good opened a general store in Hope called Good & Eisenhower, operated mostly by the Eisenhower family, and "balanced to the penny" by Eisenhower's mandate. The partners were leading [[boosterism|civic boosters]] for Hope for years, with the community development mostly led by Good and the socially reclusive Eisenhower co-funding some projects.<ref name="NVNH">{{Cite book|url=https://www.kshs.org/publicat/history/1992autumn_branigar.pdf|title=No Villains, No Heroes|last=Branigar|first=Thomas| chapter=The David Eisenhower{{mdash}}Milton Good Controversy | pages=168-179 | access-date=June 30, 2024}}</ref>{{rp|173}}

Hope was incorporated in 1886, with a population over 700. The arrival of the railroad one year before, brought access of bustling Chicago to tiny Hope.{{citation needed|date=November 2012}} In early 1886, Eisenhower and Good organized a fundraiser among businesses to open an [[opera house]] in Hope.<ref name="NVNH"/>{{rp|173}} On November 4, 1886, Eisenhower bought out their partnership of one and a half years.<ref name="NVNH"/>{{rp|174}}

In 1887, [[Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway]] built a branch line from Neva (3 miles west of [[Strong City, Kansas|Strong City]]) through Hope to [[Superior, Nebraska]].  In 1996, the [[Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway]] merged with [[Burlington Northern Railroad]] and renamed to the current [[BNSF Railway]].

In late 1888, Good abandoned Hope, and the Eisenhower family continued the store. The Eisenhowers reported Good's "misdeeds" to have caused the later failure of the store and his departure to have been "in something of a hurry", but historians' research has improved Good's retrospective reputation.<ref name="NVNH"/>{{rp|172-174}}

The motto of Hope is "There Will Always Be Hope In Kansas", which is also the name of a song.