Nothing much more than a grain elevator next to a house, Tennis, Kansas in Finney County, still appears on maps between Garden City and Friend in southwestern Kansas. I've actually been to Tennis, back in 1988 on a family trip through western Kansas. I assume the grain elevator is still the sole landmark, judging from a website featuring a good picture of it.
I'm not sure when Tennis began, but it was around as a railroad station on the Garden City, Gulf and Northern Railroad in 1912. It never had a post office, but likely was served by Terryton, which has been described as being four miles southeast of Tennis, which in turn was Terryton's nearest railroad station.
I'm definitely not sure why it was named Tennis, but unless sports marketing hits the town, it is likely to remain an obscurely-named place without much to mark its place in the world but that big elevator towering across the flat windswept plains of western Kansas.
About Me
- SAYOHAT
- I'm genuine, open-minded, real. Life is like opening a bunch of presents, you never know what you're going to get. Sometimes it's not what you want, sometimes it's excatly what you want, most of the time it's what you really need even if you don't appreciate it at the time. My passion is travel. It's in my blood and is reflected in everything I do. I'm a xenophile at heart. Something about being from another country, or just "elsewhere" is inherently interesting to me. I'm still learning and growing and hope to be as eager to do it when I'm 86 as I am now.
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