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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 the principal city of the Manhattan metropolitan area which, as of 2014, had an estimated population of 98,091. [36] It is also the principal city of the Manhattan-Junction City, Kansas Combined Statistical Area which, as of 2014, had an estimated population of 134,804, making it the fourth largest urban area in Kansas. [37]
It was changed from a Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) to a Combined Statistical Area (CSA) by the Office of Management and Budget on February 28, 2013. [2] As of the 2010 census, the MSA had a population of 127,081. [3] As of July 1, 2014, the CSA had an estimated population of 134,804, making it the fourth largest urban area in Kansas. [4]
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 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 Aggieville riots occurred in 1984 and 1986 following football games between rivals Kansas State University and the University of Kansas. They were some of the earliest collegiate sports-related riots in the United States. [3] [better source needed] On October 13, 1984, Kansas State defeated KU 24-7 in football.
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What Kansas Means to Me: Twentieth-Century Writers on the Sunflower State (University Press of Kansas, 1991) Cordier, Mary Hurlbut. Schoolwomen of the Prairies and Plains: Personal Narratives from Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska, 1860S-1920s (1997) online; Missouri Pacific Railway Company. Facts about Kansas: a book for home-seekers and home-builders.