Hamilton Kansas

After reading some about the assignment and posting some answers I decided to write about what ws on my mind so that I can possibly use it later. I grew up in Hamilton Kansas, I lived there with my mother and father until the age of eight. It was a small town out in the middle of no where. I knew every person on every corner and was well known myself. I went to a very small school with about 10 people per class. Infact the classrooms are combined. Kindergarten is the only room to itself in grade school. other than that first and second share a room and so on. I have alot of good memories and a few bad ones about growing up here. I remember everyone knew each other so it was great to get together and play kick the can or just all go to the park. but there was some bad memories like, Danny tony, who died in a house fire. And one of my best friends who lost her mother to cancer. I could go on and on about this town. It was a town that was divided by a main hiway. It had a small gas station, full service and a very small store that a woman named Donita owned, and she was incredibly short with us children and did not like it when we all came together and would buy icecream or candy. She also owned the only laundry mat and a small portion of rental houses in town, including the one my parents were buying. There was also a small post office, infact the smallest post office I have ever seen. It was just barely big enough for 2 or 3 people to do business in. Then there was the oil business and the slotterback shop, other than that not a whole lot there. I still know some of the people from that town and not many really stuck around, except for those that now work for the city, the oil copany or had kids and married. but if I were to still go back I would proabably know everyones last name from when I lived there before. Infact one of my aunts and one cousin are still there. I did find some info on the town and the population was 334 on the 2000 census. still very ssmall and proabably wont grow much more. I am hoping to find a airial picture of the school so that I can later share with you about this incredibaly small school and the U we use to run,, will have to elaborate later on the U. I also found that currently there are 54 grade school students toatal.. that is quite interesting I think compared to the 1000 that are in springfield and the number of grade schools.

2008 Student Enrollment: 54Pre-Kindergarten Enrollment : 3Kindergarten Enrollment : 91st Grade Enrollment : 62nd Grade Enrollment : 53rd Grade Enrollment : 104th Grade Enrollment : 65th Grade Enrollment : 66th Grade Enrollment : 4

that was the students per class room.

here are a few photos of what we called donitas.. it was the small grocery store/ hambuger shop,