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The Downtown Manhattan Historic District in Manhattan, Kansas is a 25.8 acres (10.4 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. The district generally includes the blocks between Humboldt and Pierre Sts. from 3rd to 5th Sts.
Politics – In Kansas, the political atmosphere was highly divided. Towns were either pro-slavery or abolitionist. When Kansas became a free state in 1861, pro-slavery towns died out. Survival of a town also depended on if it won the county seat. Towns that were contenders for the county seat and lost typically saw most, if not all, of their ...
Manhattan is located at coordinates 39.1836082, -96.5716694 in the scenic Flint Hills and Great Plains of the state of Kansas, [3] or about 50 miles (80 km) west of Topeka on the Kansas River. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has an area of 18.79 square miles (48.67 km 2 ), of which 18.76 square miles (48.59 km 2 ) is ...
Thai labor leader Tanong disappeared after his car was found abandoned in Bangkok's Rat Burana District, shortly after a military coup. Repeated inquiries from his family to the police and other government agencies received no reply, and his fate remains unknown. [27] 19 July 1991 Jared Negrete: 12 San Gorgonio Mountain, California, U.S.
It was abandoned after being devastated by flooding in 2007. • The former Santa Fe Railway Depot at Stafford in Stafford County south-central Kansas. It was built in 1911 and abandoned in the 1980s.
In the aftermath of the Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes, 4-year-old Joan Gay Croft and her sister Jerri were among refugees taking shelter in a basement hallway of the Woodward hospital. As officials sent the injured to different hospitals in the area, two men took Joan away saying they were taking her to Oklahoma City. She was never ...
In Kansas City or even Salina, 40 miles southeast of Lincoln, a builder who spends $150,000 to construct a new home can safely assume it will sell for far more than $150,000, ensuring a profit.
The legend of Johnny Kaw was created in 1955 by George Filinger, a professor of horticulture at Kansas State University, to celebrate the centennial of Manhattan, Kansas. The stories were initially printed in the city newspaper, The Manhattan Mercury , during the centennial and later collected into a self-published book by Filinger, who created ...