Fulton and L. Walker each put up a building. A fitting tribute to their hard work and dedication in establishing town. Before Jones returned home, the Fulton brothers procured his services to promote Garden City, and especially in trying to influence the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad to put in a switch station.
The railroad agreed to place its station at Garden City. In the spring of , more people began coming to homestead in the area.
During the years of , you can still see the the building on the corner of Main and Grant street that he erected of white stone quarried in Kendal,Ks. Lawyers also arrived in Garden City. McKeever, in sold thousands of acres of railroad and private land. The streets of Garden City were crowded with horses, wagons, buggies, and ox teams.
Long lines of people stood out in the weather awaiting mail at the post office, and there was always a crowd in front of the land office. During the height of the boom the town had nine lumber yards. Lumber was hauled in all directions to build up inland towns, and to improve the nearby homesteads.
Thirteen drug stores were in operation. The town had two daily newspapers. Nearly everyone used kerosene lamps, and a few were placed on posts on Main Street. There was no city water works; so all depended on shallow wells, which were strong of alkali. In response to demographic changes in Finney County, several organizations are implementing initiatives to help immigrants better utilize available health care and social services, such as English language classes.
Finney County has received funding from the Kansas Health Foundation and Garden City to improve its built environment. Today, stakeholders across Finney County are working to boost community vitality through improved population health. Local partnerships and coalitions have emerged to improve the built environment, strengthen social services for immigrants, and connect all residents to resources. These baseline reports, created in , track community programs and initiatives in their early stages and measure initial progress only.
Future reports will provide more in-depth insights and analysis into this community's efforts to build a Culture of Health. Community leaders and residents recognize the contributions of immigrants to local industry and to the community's vitality. To respond to gaps in health care access and poor health outcomes across the county, the public school system, nonprofit organizations, and local leaders are implementing initiatives to improve social services and access to health care to all Finney county residents, particularly Hispanic immigrants.
Finney County Community Health Coalition FCCHC , formed in , brings together stakeholders from health, social service, and education sectors to connect residents to local resources, including health care services and tobacco prevention and cessation programs.
Genesis Family Health, established in , is a nonprofit agency that provides a range of services through its network of safety net clinics and programs in and around Garden City. It also manages social service programs, including food and clothing banks, assistance with immigration documentation language translation, and targeted health promotion programs.
Going Forward: Questions for Consideration Finney County has dramatically changed over the past four decades due to its growing immigrant population. Today, Hispanic residents make up nearly half of the population and experience significant economic, social, and health disparities.
While a number of local initiatives aim to link these residents to services, including health care, English classes, and healthy foods, more work is needed to overcome the significant barriers facing immigrants, especially poverty and a lack of health insurance. Additional surveillance, data, and information gathering will examine how initiatives to support racially diverse residents affect economic and social inequities and, in turn, the health and well-being of many Finney County residents.
Ongoing questions include the following:. Each of these Sentinel Community Reports provides insight into the various ways communities across America are working to develop a Culture of Health.
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