Kansas is replete with interesting small towns, many of which have still standing architecturally interesting old banks that really epitomize the small-town national banking era. For this month, I selected a note from my collection that I thought would be interesting for several reasons, and so we’re going to take a short visit to picturesque Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. This goes right into the heart of sparsely populated rural Kansas, which for me makes it all that more interesting.
Cottonwood Falls is the county seat and largest city in Chase County, Kan., a rural subdivision located roughly equidistant between Kansas City and Wichita. The population of Cottonwood Falls is only 851, which would lead one to believe that
