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Great choice with the B&W. I always seem to be drawn to the pictures of buildings that are more than a bit past their prime. I have empathy for them, I suppose…

that house is the brown palace lived in by mr dusten anderson a war hero and cowboy. i moved his phone when he moved in to the house north of it. dust bunnys the size of a football he was cleaning the kitchen stove with elbow grease and chewing tobaco juise because he was getting married!!! a great man.

Where did the name “Skiddy” come from? My dad said that Skiddy is older than Woodbine…and Woodbine is pretty old.–well, in Kansas.
Was that building (the 2nd photo) a church or a school?

Gasp! What a church! What a town! I HAVE to go there. Thanks for sharing — and congrats on the first draft of your novel. I am soooooo jealous…

Dear Cheryl,

The black and white ghost town photos are just great!

Question: Approximately what percentage of the buildings do you think are unoccupied and / or abandoned?

> Skiddy, I believe, is just inside the Morris County line, on the border with Geary County.

You are absolutely correct!

The church building might be the 1882 Baptist Church.

Some interesting history from Kansas Community Networks:

“Skiddy is located on the boundary line between Morris and Davis (now Geary) counties and on the line of the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas (Katy) Railroad. The place was also known as and sometimes designated, Camden. It was started in 1870 by a mixed colony from Pennsylvania and New Jersey, which was organized by one W. E. Tomlinson. It has only one general store which was built in 1870 by J. R. College. The Baptists, who were quite numerous in Skiddy and the surrounding country in 1882 finished a frame church building for the purpose of worship. The inhabitants of the village number about 120 according to A. T. Andreas in 1883.

Skiddy, organized with great promise, was named for a railroad man, Francis Skiddy of New York, a magnate of the old Union Pacific Railroad who controlled the northern extension of the Tebo and Neosho Railroad branch.

Rev. J.E. Glendenning, a Methodist minister who lived at Skiddy in 1878-1879, was, at the time, holding services at irregular intervals in various school houses in Ohio Township.”

Source URL:
http://www.kansastowns.us/skiddy.html