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South of El Dorado in Butler County, there’s a place called Smileyberg. In checking the 1961 book, Kansas Post Offices, it doesn’t show there was ever a Smileyberg post office, so it’s likely this was never an incorporated town. (If someone out there has information on the place, please chime in.)
Anyway, there are several houses here and we found two buildings that bear the Smileyberg name. Below is the Smileyberg Bait Shop.
UPDATE: Robert Collins, a writer in Andover, had this information to share about Smileyberg:
You asked about Smileyburg. According to the second of Dan Fitzgerald’s
“Ghost Towns of Kansas” books, Smileyburg pretty much consisted of a
store and a couple of other businesses from 1900 on. It was at its
largest during the oil boom of the 1920s. That was all I ever found
out about it when I did my “Touring Butler County” book 15 or so
years ago.
On Mother’s Day the girls and I took a little drive. That’s when we took pictures of that abandoned brick building out north of Gordon. I found out from the lady at the Douglass Pioneer Museum that it was once a school for an oil field settlement. I think she said it was called Richland School.
Anyway, we drove on around to a cemetery east of there and then south to Smileyberg. I’d driven through Smileyberg several times (just that gravel pile, a small auto shop, and a few houses) and never noticed the building which you have pictured here. I noticed it this time and I looked for clues online. I found a little bit of information on a message board about it having once been a store and that someone currently owns it and has been fixing it up or thinking of fixing it up for a while. It’s on my list of places to ask about at the museum. I’m planning to start a little local history project and historical building survey this fall and maybe I’ll post some of what I find on my blog.
BTW, I’m going to have to start looking for the examples of the type of Methodist churches I mentioned a while back. The one in Douglass and the others you’ve mentioned certainly don’t fall into that category. Must not be as typical as I thought!
I’ve added a update to this post – from Robert Collins about Smileyberg.
In traveling around, a lot of towns have small white Methodist Churches – and many have very similar architecture. But there are also a number of exceptions.
My great aunt and uncle lived in Smileyburg for most of their lives. If you want, I can put you in contact with their son. He could likely give you a lot of information on Smileyburg.