Histories of Nemaha County Spring from Common Source
The Courier Tribune
Seneca, Kansas
Anniversary Edition (1936)
Greatest net gain to Nemaha county is the building of farm to market roads, which now form a network of all-weather highways. Other federal aid public works include a modern auditorium-gym in Centralia, Goff and Wetmore, a city hall now under construction in Corning; a city reservoir-lake, city library, federal post office at Sabetha; a modern school building and now a post office in Seneca and now the Nemaha County State Park one of the largest artificial lakes in Kansas - 356 acres.
This project is still under construction when this is written. The idea of creating a lake at the site was suggested by County Commissioner Frank Mills at a time when it was proposed to ask the state to build a new bridge on highway 63 over the Nemaha. The commissioner, suggested a spillway bridge to be added. The Courier-Tribune has devoted five years of promotion to the project. The state highway department built the spillway at a cost of $50,000. The state fish and game commission furnished sheet piling for the dam. The county voted $30,000 in bonds to pay for the right-of-way of the park. The Civilian Conservation furnished the labor and the Soil Conservation service is supervising the work. The work began in the fall of 1934 and will be completed in 1939.