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Blacksmiths at the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway shops in Topeka, 1943. Being the state's capital city, Topeka's largest employer is the State of Kansas—employing about 8,400 people, [46] or 69% of the city's government workers. Altogether, government workers make up one out of every five employed persons in the city.
The Kansas State Capitol, known also as the Kansas Statehouse, is the building housing the executive and legislative branches of government for the U.S. state of Kansas. Located in the city of Topeka, which has served as the capital of Kansas since the territory became a state in 1861, the building is the second to serve as the Kansas Capitol.
St. Marys, Kansas: 1855 Mission building Oldest building remaining at St. Mary's Mission (Kansas) 1734 Kent Terrace Lawrence, Kansas: 1855 Residence Oldest house in Lawrence [7] Levi Flint House: Johnson County, Kansas: c. 1856 Residence [8] Ritchie House: Topeka, Kansas: 1856 Residence Oldest house in Topeka [9] Barnes Apple Barn: Baldwin City ...
Shawnee County is located in northeast Kansas, in the central United States. Its county seat and most populous city is Topeka, the state capital. [4] As of the 2020 census, the population was 178,909, [2] making it the third-most populous county in Kansas.
1854 - Topeka Association organized. 1855 Constitution Hall built.; 310pxConstitution Hall in 2012 - Constitution Hall, in Topeka, Kansas, is a significant building in the history of Kansas Territory and the state of Kansas.
The Topeka Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of five counties in northeastern Kansas, anchored by the city of Topeka. In total, it has an area of 3,290.15 square miles.
The first counties were established while Kansas was a Territory from May 30, 1854, until January 29, 1861, when Kansas became a state. Many of the counties in the eastern part of the state are named after prominent Americans from the late 18th and early-to-mid-19th centuries, while those in the central and western part of the state are named ...
Kansas is named after the Kansas River, in turn named after the Kansa people. Its capital is Topeka, and its most populous city is Wichita; however, the largest urban area is the bi-state Kansas City metropolitan area split between Kansas and Missouri. For thousands of years, what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Indigenous tribes.