Editing Scandia, Kansas (section)

==History==
[[File:Stouffer's Railroad Map of Kansas 1915-1918 Republic County.png|thumb|left|1915 Railroad Map of Republic County]]
The first American flag to be flown in what is now Kansas was raised in 1806 near the area of Scandia.<ref name="Scandia - KS-Cyclopedia - 1912">[http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1912/s/scandia.html Scandia - KS-Cyclopedia - 1912<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>  The area was not settled until much later by [[Swedish American|Swedish]] immigrants and was first called '''New Scandinavia'''.<ref>[http://skyways.lib.ks.us/towns/Scandia/index.html  "Scandia"  (Blue Skyways of Kansas 1997–2014)<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.kansastowns.us/scandia.html Scandia, Kansas History<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The settlement of Scandia was promoted by crop failures during the 1860s in Sweden.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.european-emigration.com/se/reasons.html|title= Sweden - Reasons for Emigration|website=European Immigration|access-date=19 February 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.kshs.org/p/the-swedish-immigrant-and-life-in-kansas/13165|title= The Swedish Immigrant and Life in Kansas (Spring 1963. Vol. XXIX, No. 1, pages 1 to 24)|publisher=Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains|author=Emory Lindquist|access-date= February 25, 2016}}</ref> In 1868, the Scandinavian Agricultural Society of Chicago purchased 12 sections of land along the Republican River and formed a colony. The name was changed to '''Scandia''' in 1876, according to post office records.<ref>[http://www.kshs.org/genealogists/places/postoffices.php?po=New%20Scandinavia Post Offices in Kansas<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927210303/http://www.kshs.org/genealogists/places/postoffices.php?po=New%20Scandinavia |date=September 27, 2007 }}</ref>   Scandia was incorporated as a city in 1879.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/historyofrepubli02sava | title=A History of Republic County, Kansas | publisher=Jones & Chubbic | author=Savage, Isaac O. | year=1901 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/historyofrepubli02sava/page/186 186]}}</ref> From there it became a transition point for trade and travel in the early 1900s. It is now a small rural community.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4179/is_20020820/ai_n11785516 | title=[ Letter &#93; – Topeka Capital-Journal, The – Find Articles at BNET.com }} {{Dead link|date=June 2012|bot=RjwilmsiBot}}</ref><ref>[http://www.splcenter.org/intel/map/hate.jsp?T=37&m=5 SPLCenter.org: Hate Groups Map<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080106160114/http://www.splcenter.org/intel/map/hate.jsp?T=37&m=5 |date=January 6, 2008 }}</ref>

Scandia is the site of several historic houses dating to the early days of settlement.  The three-story Wohlfort Mansion was built in the early 1890s by Thure Wohlfort (1835-1916) who was an early member of the society and one of the original founders of Scandia.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.ksmuseums.com/like/historic-homes/|title= Scandia Historic Homes|publisher=Kansas museums.com|access-date= February 25, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.ksmuseums.com/wohlfort-mansion/|title= Wohlfort Mansion|publisher=Kansas museums.com|access-date= February 25, 2016}}</ref>