In 1909 the town of Ulysses in Southern Kansas was so heavily indebted that the only way it could survive was by packing everything up and moving three miles to the West.
Ulysses was a small settlement established in 1873 to serve cattle ranchers. It was basically the stereotypical cowboy town, complete with 12 saloons to service its population of just 2,000.
The one thing it didn’t have though, was a town hall, because it was not the only small town in the county.
Ulysses had become embroiled in a fierce and expensive rivalry with it’s neighbouring town of Appomattox. Though the town would end up winning the Town Hall it went deeply in debt to do so and by 1909, it was simply unable to pay this debt off.
Since the loans were secured against the land the town stood on, the townsfolk opted to just give the bank the land and then just move their basic wooden houses and stores to a new area that the bank couldn’t claim.
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