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1854 - Topeka Association organized. 1855 Constitution Hall built.; 310pxConstitution Hall in 2012 - Constitution Hall, in Topeka, Kansas, is a significant building in the history of Kansas Territory and the state of Kansas.
The Topeka Constitution was followed by the equally unsuccessful, pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution of 1857 and the Free-State Leavenworth Constitution of 1858. Finally the Wyandotte Constitution (1859) led to Kansas being admitted into the Union as a free state in 1861, five years after it first applied, the Southern legislators blocking it ...
The name "Topeka" is a Kansa-Osage word that means "place where we dig potatoes", [11] or "a good place to dig potatoes". [citation needed] As a placename, Topeka was first recorded in 1826 as the Kansa name for what is now called the Kansas River. Topeka's founders chose the name in 1855 because it "was novel, of Indian origin, and euphonious ...
A free panel discussion from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, 1515 S.W. 10th Ave., focusing on how Black-owned businesses enabled 4th Street in downtown Topeka to ...
Constitution Hall in 2012. Constitution Hall, in Topeka, Kansas, is a significant building in the history of Kansas Territory and the state of Kansas.The two-story native stone building, with basement, was begun by Loring and John Farnsworth in the spring of 1855.
Mike Morse, with Kansas Commercial Real Estate, said the quality of the Dillon House is one you don't see anywhere else in the city.
These structures at 114, 116 and 118 S.E. 7th, once owned by early Black Topeka newspaper editor Nick Chiles, were on a list the Kansas Preservation Alliance put out Monday of the state's Most ...
Kansas Territory was established on May 30, 1854, by the Kansas–Nebraska Act.This act established both the Nebraska Territory and Kansas Territory. The most momentous provision of the Act in effect repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and allowed the settlers of Kansas Territory to determine by popular sovereignty whether Kansas would be a free state or a slave state.