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In June 2003, Pottawatomie County Economic Development
Corporation activated our new website, www.ecodevo.com.
This January 2004, we begin our newsletter.
County Economic Status Beginning with Louis Vieux in the 1840s and continuing with the early pioneers down to the present day - Pottawatomie County has always enjoyed the presence of vigorous entrepreneurs! During calendar year 2003 Kansas, Inc. designated Pottawatomie County the most economically vibrant county in Kansas for 2002! For the first time - we beat out Johnson County! This ranking uses a weighted sample of short and long term employment, population growth, per capita income, and per capita asset ownership to derive its scores. Business Retention In spite of the national economic downturn over the past three years - Pottawatomie County suffered much less than places like Wyandotte County, Wichita, Tulsa and other places dominated by a few industries. While some of our businesses did suffer - throughout 2003, our unemployment rate never exceeded 3.5 % and is now at 2.9%. The statewide average is 4.7%. Congratulations to our businesses and banks for persevering through a difficult time! New Business Development Here are a few of the new businesses born in Pottawatomie County in 2002-2003:
Community Development projects completed by local communities in 2002-2003
Community Development projects now underway
Tourism
J.B.
Pearl Sales and Service Inc., St. Marys, Kan.
J.B. Pearl Sales and Service Inc., a full service
retailer of fertilizer and crop protection, has been awarded the
2003 National Ag Retailer of the Year Award, by the Agricultural
Retailers Association (ARA).
The St. Marys business is a family owned operation that has been meeting the needs of farmers and ranchers for 43 years. A branch of J.B. Pearl Sales and Service is also located in Perry, Kan. The award was presented on Dec. 4, at the ARA Annual Conference
in Nashville, Tenn. Present to receive the award was J.B and Eileen
Pearl, Doyle and Laura Pearl, Don and Patty Pearl and other family
members that are involved within the company. REED Company, a business that specializes in construction equipment
sales, has recently been selling their equipment globally, due
in part to the Internet. After putting their inventory online
REED Company has recorded sales in countries that include: Mexico,
Vietnam and Thailand. REED Company sells heavy-duty trucks, trailers, skid loaders,
trenchers, backhoes, excavators and dozers. Construction equipment
also is available to rent.
287 years ago in 1717 195 years ago in 1811 Of the country he had passed through (south of the river) he wrote: "This is a very wild but extremely beautiful and high prairie country - pretty well watered and variegated with strips of woodland, ranges of lofty rugged, naked hills, overlooking extensive tracts of meadow ground. Deer and elk are plentiful, and I observed some antelope skipping among the verdant hills." Grand Chief Shone-ge-ne-gare and more than 100 mounted Kansa warriors forded the river to assist the party in the rather difficult crossing. At the 128 - lodge village, Sibley found U.S. flags flying and the Indians both hospitable and friendly. Of the village Sibley wrote: "(the town) is built without much regard to order; there are no regular streets or avenues. The lodges are erected pretty compactly together in crooked rows, allowing barely space sufficient to admit a man to pass between them. The avenues between…are kept in tolerably decent order and the village is on the whole rather neat and cleanly. Their …fields or patches of corn, beans and pumpkins, which they had just finished planting, and which constitute their whole variety, are seen in various directions, at convenient distances around the village. The prairie was covered with their horses and mules (they have no other domestic animals except dogs).
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