Warehouse District
1872
1872
Colonel Marshall M. Murdock published the first issue of The Wichita Eagle, now the city's only newspaper.
"Cities are not the result of chance nor do they make themselves. Their prosperity and greatness are in a large measure due to the sagacity and enterprise of their founders and early settlers in reaching out and drawing to them the channels of commerce and trade."
James R. Mead, 1884
Following Mead's initiative, the efforts of key businessmen in time brought additional railway services to Wichita. These leaders included Colonel Marshall M. Murdock, M.W. Levy, N.F. Neiderlander, William Grieffenstein, W.C. Woodman, D.S. Munger and A.W. Oliver.
Eagle Publisher Colonel Marshall M. Murdock championed growth. And he believed the central purpose of a city was to support business. When some leaders pushed for locating rail depots on the outskirts of our city, Murdock passionately argued otherwise. "Are we to have a business center and a center of business, or mawkish sentiment and a flattened-out village?"
Marker is on Mosley near 1st Street, on the right when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
