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For many decades, it was a tourist trap called the Indian Burial Pit or Salina Burial Pit. [7] [5] It was declared a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1964. [2] [3] In 1989, the state of Kansas purchased the site. In 1990, the pit was filled with sand and covered with a concrete cap to protect it, then covered with dirt and grass.
Location of Saline County in Kansas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Saline County, Kansas. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Saline County, Kansas, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts ...
Salina / s ə ˈ l aɪ n ə / is a city in and the county seat of Saline County, Kansas, United States. [1] As of the 2020 census, the population was 46,889. [4] [5]In the early 1800s, the Kanza tribal land reached eastward from the middle of the Kansas Territory.
The following is a list of mayors of the city of Salina, Kansas, United States of America. City-County Building in Salina, Kansas, 2015 Part of a series on the
This is a list of all National Historic Landmarks designated by the U.S. government in Kansas.There are 26 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) in Kansas. The United States National Historic Landmark program is operated under the auspices of the National Park Service, and recognizes structures, districts, objects, and similar resources according to a list of criteria of national significance.
In 1803, most of the land for modern day Kansas was acquired by the United States from France as part of the 828,000 square mile Louisiana Purchase for 2.83 cents per acre. In 1848, after the Mexican–American War , the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo with Spain brought into the United States all or part of land for ten future states, including ...
The Salina Stockade was built in Salina, Kansas, to provide the residents with protection from the American Indians in the area, many of whom were hostile toward white settlement. Salina had been raided in 1862 by Native Americans and then Confederate guerrillas, but it was not until May 1864 when residents decided they needed to build a ...
After the war, Kansas was home to Wild West towns servicing the cattle trade. With the railroads came heavy immigration from the East, from Europe, and from Freedmen called "Exodusters". For much of its history, Kansas has had a rural economy based on wheat and other crops, supplemented by oil and railroads. Since 1945 the farm population has ...