The first thing we saw near Burdett was the old Browns Grove Cemetery outside of town. The Burdett post office used to be in Brown's Grove until it was moved in 1887.
Burdett was established in 1876 and was the teenage home of Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto. A Kansas hailstorm destroyed his family's crops and his hopes for going to college, but he built his own telescopes. Tombaugh's drawings of Jupiter and Mars were good enough to get him a job at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, AZ at the age of 23.
Burdett has a grain elevator and a number of small homes on quiet streets. Downtown, there's an auto body shop, a garage, and an auto detailer, as well as a couple of propane tanks with landscape scenes painted on them.
Other things we saw in town:
- American Legion building
- Insurance agency
- Fire station
- Post office
- Dog groomer
- Senior center
- Bank
- Mortuary
- Café
No comments:
Post a Comment