Eudora is located approximately 6 miles east of Lawrence, Kansas and 40 miles west of Kansas City, Kansas on Kansas Highway 10. While conveniently located near the many amenities of a university community and metropolitan area, the community retains a distinct small town atmosphere and remains an attractive place to raise a family.
1856 - A location committee was sent by a German Immigrant Company from Chicago to find a settlement area for their Deutche Ansiedlungs Verein. They came to the junction of the Wakarusa and the Kansas rivers to buy land from Shawnee Chief Paschal Fish, since this Shawnee Reservation had been opened up for settlement. Chief Fish agreed to sell them 774 1/2 acres of his family's land. Chief Fish...