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Belle Plaine was founded in 1871. [4] Belle Plaine is a French name meaning "beautiful plain". [5] In 1883, Belle Plaine was a station and shipping point for the Southern Central & Fort Scott Railway. [6] By 1910, it was at the junction of two railroads, the Missouri Pacific and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. [7] The first post office in ...
Wichita’s new water treatment plant is on track to be finished six months late and $20 million over the original budget — in part because of drought conditions in south-central Kansas.
The Arboretum was established in 1910 by Dr. Walter Bartlett, a general practitioner from Belle Plaine, who purchased pastureland to create his own arboretum. In the 1930s the arboretum became an approved test site for the United States Department of Agriculture which provided plants and trees from around the world for hardiness tests.
A devastating plane crash this week has drawn Wichita, known as the "air capital of the world" and its aviation roots, into the national spotlight. ... 35% of all general aviation planes built in ...
At that time it ran from US-81 west of Belle Plaine southeast to K-12 in Oxford. [1] By 1928, it was realigned to travel east from US-81 to K-15 west of Udall. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] In November 1930, it was announced that work would begin spring of 1931, to reconstruct the road from Belle Plaine east to the Cowley County line.
Goddard resident and nascent developer Ben Healy said he’s tired of “just losing to Wichita constantly,” so this week he’s opening OutWest, a new 2,000- to 3,000-person outdoor venue on ...
Media related to Newspapers of Kansas at Wikimedia Commons; Kansas Press Association - has a full list of daily and weekly newspapers that are KPA members. Penny Abernathy, "The Expanding News Desert: Kansas", Usnewsdeserts.com, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (Survey of local news existence and ownership in 21st century)
An initial autopsy of a 47-year-old Wichita man who died in police custody on Sunday did not find a cause of death, Kansas Bureau of Investigation spokesperson Melissa Underwood said Friday ...