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Wellington was platted in 1871 and named for the Duke of Wellington. [5] It was designated as the Sumner County seat in 1872, winning out over Sumner City according to the Wellington library. Cattle herders coming up the Chisholm Trail helped to build the early town's economy. [6] The first post office in Wellington was established in July 1871 ...
The Wellington Daily News is an American daily newspaper published in Wellington, Kansas. It is owned by CherryRoad Media. It is owned by CherryRoad Media. The paper covers the city of Wellington and Sumner County, Kansas , part of the Wichita metropolitan area .
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2008. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
Pages in category "2008 in Kansas" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. K. Kansas state budget (2008–09)
This file comes from the Roger Puta collection, which passed to Mel Finzer.They were scanned/posted by Marty Bernard and are in the public domain. Attribution to "Roger Puta" is not required for a public domain image, but should be done as a matter of courtesy to a major Commons contributor.
On February 26, 1867, Sumner County was created from parts of Marion County and Butler County.It was named in honor of Charles Sumner, a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (1811–74), who was a strong advocate of Kansas becoming a free state.
The Downtown Wellington Historic District, in Wellington, Kansas, is a 21 acres (8.5 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. [ 1 ] The district follows Washington Avenue, the main business thoroughfare, and is roughly bounded by 19th St., 4th St., Jefferson Ave. and the alley behind the ...