Lane is a city in Franklin County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 241. The first temporary settle…Lane is a city in Franklin County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 241. The first temporary settlement near what would become Lane occurred in 1838 when Rev. Robert Simerwell established a Baptist Mission Station "on the south side of Pottawatomie Creek" following the Potawatomie Trail of Death. When the Federal Government moved the Potawatomie to the Kansas River valley in the mid-1840s, brothers William, Peter, and "Dutch" Henry Sherman were left as the first permanent settlers. The community was known as Dutch Henry's Crossing because a wagon road forded the creek near the Sherman cabin.
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