On July 11, 1871, J. Hout Minnich and John Hufbauer filed a town plat for El Paso in Sedgwick County, Kansas. It established streets from Madison to Kay and from Water Street to Georgie Avenue, and business boomed.
Maurine Mohr and her cousin Opal Stewart with a birthday cake in Maurine’s front yard located then on K-15 but now is Kay Street in 1932. Their house looked over at the Austin family’s place.