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This is a list of people from Hays, Kansas, United States. Academia. Maurice L. Albertson (1918-2009), civil engineer ...
The Justus Bissing Jr. Historic District, in Hays, Kansas in Ellis County, Kansas, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. [1] The district includes two contributing buildings: the 1920 Justus Bissing Jr. house, Craftsman in style with Prairie School influences, and
Hays is located in northwestern Kansas at the intersection of Interstate 70 and U.S. Route 183, Hays is 134 miles (216 km) northwest of Wichita, 256 miles (412 km) west of Kansas City, and 311 miles (501 km) east-southeast of Denver.
A list of people who were born in, or strongly associated with, Hays, Kansas Pages in category "People from Hays, Kansas" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.
In 1867, Fort Hays was established on a low slope south of Big Creek, its role being to provide security for the Smoky Hill Trail.For the most part, the "fort" was still just a bivouac of hundreds of tents in the late summer of 1867 [4] when it became the center of a war with the plains tribes over the construction of the Kansas Pacific Railway parallel to the trail.
In 1870, Hays founded a newspaper, the Council Grove Democrat, and the Council Grove Savings Bank, the town's first. [1] Hays enslaved a woman named Sarah Taylor, nicknamed Aunt Sally, while living in Missouri. As the Kansas Territory still allowed slavery at the time, Hays brought Taylor with him to Kansas, where she remained a slave.
The Ellis County Courthouse, located at 1204 Fort Street in Hays City, is the seat of government of Ellis County, Kansas.Hays has been the county seat since 1867. The courthouse was built from 1940 to 1942 by Ralph Hunter Construction as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project.
Grant County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas.Its county seat and only city is Ulysses. [2] As of the 2020 census, the county population was 7,352. [1] Both the county and its seat are named after Ulysses Grant, the 18th President of the United States.