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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.
The Kansas Highway Patrol called Governor John W. Carlin's office to request that he declare a state of emergency and send Kansas National Guard troops, but this was ultimately not done. [5] Ten people were injured, including six police officers. [4] Twenty-four arrests were made. [6] Two years later, after a number of precautions, another riot ...
The Overland Park shootings were two shootings that occurred on April 13, 2014, at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City and Village Shalom, a Jewish retirement community, both located in Overland Park, Kansas United States. A total of three people were killed in the shootings, two of whom were shot at the community center and one ...
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 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.
Soldiers from Fort Riley ill with Spanish influenza at a hospital ward at Camp Funston, Kansas, in 1918. America's entry into World War I resulted in many changes at Fort Riley. Facilities were greatly expanded, and a cantonment named Camp Funston was built 5 miles (8 km) east of the permanent post during the summer and fall of 1917. This ...
Police say the gunman was seen on surveillance video around 5 a.m. local time near the Frederick Douglass Houses, a NYCHA complex on Manhattan's Upper West Side.At 5:41 a.m., the man arrived at ...
Roy Francis Adkins (42), English gangster from Hammersmith, London, was murdered in Amsterdam on 28 September 1990 by unknown people after being shot. [225] Danny Rodriguez (22), whose stage name was "D-Boy Rodriguez", was an American Christian rap artist who was murdered in Dallas, Texas on 6 October 1990 [226] by persons unknown. The murder ...