HISTORY
The town of Lehigh was established in 1877 when the Santa Fe Railroad was laid through Marion County. It had a weekly newspaper, the Marion County Record, publishing as early as 1881. The land on which the town was plotted was originally owned by Lee Hays, and according to one account, the town was named after him.
VOLGA GERMAN FAMILIES
The following Volga German families are known to have settled in and around Lehigh:
Arnholz
Bartel
Becker
Blehm
Dietz from Kratzke
Ebel
Eichman
Feil from Dreispitz
Haas
Heinze
Herbel from Dreispitz
Hill
Krieger
Mai/May
Meier
Niedens
Nuss
Oblander
Riffel
Schriock
Schroeder
Schwabauer from Huck
Steinert
Steinle
Sterkel
Stroh
Wassemiller
Winter from Shcherbakovka
Wittmann from Grimm
Wolf from Grimm
VOLGA GERMAN CONGREGATIONS
Declaration of Intentions filed in Marion Co., Kansas (Janet Flickenger)
Weinbrenner, Loren. The Story of Lehigh. North Newton, KS: Bethel College, 1961.
Lehigh, Kansas (wikipedia)