The town of Goffs was founded in 1883. Originally named Blake after founder Isaac Blake, it was renamed Goffs in 1902 in order to be part of the alphabetical sidings along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad (Amboy, Bristol, Cadiz, Danby, Essex, Fenner, Goffs, Homer, Isis, Java, etc). Goffs is geographically located on a […]
Harvey Houses were built out of the necessity to feed railroad passengers on their long journeys across the USA. In the late 1800’s, trains didn’t have the ability to cook meals on board so the railroads built restaurants roughly 100 miles apart where passengers would disembark the trains to be fed and then continued their
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