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8 ELEMENTS OF KANSAS RURAL CULTURE

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HISTORY

Fort Hays State Historic Site

Pete Felten's limestone buffalo at the entrance is your signal that you're…

📍 Hays, Ellis County

HISTORIC SCHOOL

Fort Hays State University

Founded in 1902 on the grounds of an abandoned frontier military post,…

📍 Hays, Ellis County

8 WONDERS OF KANSAS HISTORY FINALIST

Fort Larned National Historic Site

From 1859 to 1878 Fort Larned supplied guard detachments to protect mail…

📍 Larned, Pawnee County

HISTORIC HOME

Fort Leavenworth Historic Homes

The oldest continuously occupied residence in Kansas, known as the Rookery, was…

📍 Fort Leavenworth, Leavenworth County

MILITARY

Fort Leavenworth Wayside Tour

A self-guided tour features informational markers at 16 points of interest throughout…

📍 Fort Leavenworth, Leavenworth County

CARNEGIE LIBRARY

Fort Scott Carnegie Library

Built in the Beaux Arts style, the 1904 two-story red-brick Carnegie library…

📍 Fort Scott, Bourbon County

NRHP

Fort Scott Downtown Historic District

Despite fires, including the most recent in 2005, and the federal urban…

📍 Fort Scott, Bourbon County

TOUR

Fort Scott Historic Walking and Driving…

The walking or driving tour brochure describes 46 sites and provides an…

📍 Fort Scott, Bourbon County

MUSEUM

Fort Wallace Museum

You'll see first-class exhibits at this destination museum about area paleontology; the…

📍 Wallace, Wallace County

MUSEUM

Fossil Station Museum

Originally named Fossil Station, this castle-like building was built in 1907 to…

📍 Russell, Russell County

HISTORY

Fouch Family Cabin

Between Nemaha and Montgomery on the north side of U.S. 160 the…

📍 Longton, Elk County

HISTORIC JAIL

Fowler Historic Jail

Fowler residents claim that the town's old cement jail is the smallest…

📍 Fowler, Meade County

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