Welcome to: Thayer, Kansas

Thayer is proud of its residents and invites all to come and visit. We may be small, but we know how to have a good time. Sometimes we cheer at horse pulls, sometimes we relax at McLauchlen park and other times we enjoy fishing at both our City lakes, or we just enjoy our fresh country air.
In Thayer, working hard and playing hard are a way of life. Our farmers wake up before the sun and our fun-lovers stay out with the moon.
Because of our love for life our dedication to making it even better, we have great businesses, beautiful land, and a community that loves to have fun. The 495 resudents of Thayer invite you to Come and visit the place we call home.

A little history of Thayer

The City of Thayer became a Charter on January 3, 1871, and the first Mayor of Thayer was W.B. Coffin. There is a conflict on who the town was named after some say it was named after Nathaniel Thayer of Boston, Mass and then others say it was named after Eli Thayer. 
Thayer once was very prosperous with the railroad. Thayer once had 8 exclusive grocery stores, 7 drygood stores, 2 hardware stores, 5 hotels, 3 blacksmith shops, 3 livery stables, 2 lumber yards, 5 restaurants, 2 feed stores, 2 tin shops, 2 meat markets, 1 newspaper, 1 shoemaker, 2 doctors, 1 lawyer, 15 saloons, 2 billard halls, 1 Keno bank, and now end draw poker at a dollar blind a head of the dealer. The population was 620 but grew quickly to 1000 residence, but few of them were women, most were men who wanted to go to work on the construction of the extension of the railroad. Merchants came from miles to get their goods even as far as SAnta Fe, NM. The post office was moved inside Thayer city limits in the fall or winter of 1870 and the first post master was Mr. Shepherd he retained the position until A.J. Sherwood became the first duly appointed postmaster of Thayer.
The school was inaugurated Monday September 4, 1871 with 25 pupils, Miss O'Grady was the teacher.
The Masons organized on December 4, 1871