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Some towns were abandoned in the 1930s during the Dust Bowl period which mainly relied on agriculture. Eminent domain / flood control – Since 1951, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have sought to control floods through the building of dams along rivers and the resulting outcome is a town having to be moved or abandoned and demolished.
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.
City workhouse castle (Vine Street workhouse castle, Brant Castle [3]) is a city historical register site located at 2001 Vine Street in Kansas City, Missouri.The castle was constructed by contractors in 1897 for US$25,700 (equivalent to $941,000 in 2023) next to the natural deposit of yellow limestone which had been quarried by inmates of the preceding city workhouse jail across Vine Street.
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.
On December 30, 1858, John Brown and the Kansas correspondent for The New York Times William Hutchinson arrived at the home of Augustus Wattles in Moneka after Brown's Missouri raid, [5] with eleven people he freed from slavery. [6] Hutchinson later recollected they slept on a bed of hay on the second story of the home.
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