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Abilene (pronounced / ˈ æ b ɪ l iː n /) [6] is a city in and the county seat of Dickinson County, Kansas, United States. [1] As of the 2020 census , the population of the city was 6,460. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It is home of The Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum and the Greyhound Hall of Fame.
It is a union of the Abilene Daily Chronicle (founded 1933) and the Abilene Daily Reflector (founded 1888). [4]In October 2012, Junction City, Kansas-based Montgomery Communications purchased the Reflector-Chronicle from Cleveland Newspapers of Birmingham, Alabama.
The Abilene Downtown Historic District is a historic district in Abilene, Kansas which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. The district is roughly bounded by Northeast 4th, West 1st, South Walnut, and North Olive Street.
Abilene High School (9-12) Abilene Middle School (6-8) Eisenhower Elementary (4-5) McKinley Intermediate (2-3) Kennedy Primary (PreK-1) In the fall pupils in high schools may pick cross-country, tennis, volleyball and football as sports activities, in winter basketball and wrestling, in spring they may choose tennis, baseball, softball, golf ...
Dickinson County is a county in Central Kansas.Its county seat and most populous city is Abilene. [3] As of the 2020 census, the county population was 18,402. [1] The county was named in honor of Daniel Dickinson, a U.S. Senator from New York that was a Kansas statehood advocate.
Constructed of native Kansas limestone, the mansion was built in 1880 by banker Conrad Lebold. In 1857 Tim and Eliza Hersey, the founders and first inhabitants of Abilene, built a stone dugout in the location where the Lebold Mansion stands today. The Hersey dugout was incorporated into the construction of the mansion's tower and is preserved ...
The Abilene Union Pacific Railroad Passenger Depot is a former railroad station that serves as the headquarters of the Abilene Convention and Visitors Bureau in Abilene, Kansas. [3] The station was built in 1928 (though not opened until 1929) as a replacement for a three-story depot combined with a railroad hotel, originally built by the Kansas ...
The Eisenhower Home in Abilene, Kansas, at the Eisenhower Presidential Center, was the house where U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower lived with his five brothers from 1898 to 1911, when he entered the U.S. Military Academy at West Point at age 20.