By the 1890s, the Kenyon quadrangle was entirely settled and densely populated with farms. The Kenyon village had become a hub of activity where people could buy and sell supplies closer to their farms: yet more activities encompassed by the immediate spatial imaginary. The larger population meant the establishment of more rural post offices to service people at even shorter travel distances for anyone living anywhere in the quadrangle. By this period, nobody in the quadrangle was more than a roughly 45-minute walk away from the nearest post office. Their immediate world had shrunk once again. The larger world, on the other hand, was more accessible than ever, bringing it further into people’s mental maps. More roads and the establishment of the Chicago Great Western Railroad, of which Kenyon boasted a station, increased accessibility of distant places. The Kenyon newspaper, the Kenyon Leader, reports people frequently moving around the quadrangle and those surrounding it for day- or week-trips to visit families in Faribault or Zumbrota, among others. It was not uncommon for people to move back and forth from the quadrangle to the twin cities, or even occasionally to travel out-of-state should the need arise. As more things became incorporated into an increasingly immediate everyday world, connections with the more distant world further fleshed it out in the imaginations of the Kenyon residents.