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8 ELEMENTS OF KANSAS RURAL CULTURE

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ARCHITECTURE

Plevna Gymnasium

Across from City Hall, the 1937 red-brick art deco gymnasium was constructed…

📍 Plevna, Reno County

HISTORIC BRIDGE

Polecat Bridge

Polecat Bridge, a little 1901 stone single-arch bridge, is a beauty, even…

📍 Douglass, Butler County

PONY EXPRESS

Pony Express Home Station No. 1

For 18 months courageous young Pony Express riders carried the mail across…

📍 Marysville, Marshall County

ARCHITECTURE

Post Rock Capital

Post rock is the "friendly" name for the Greenhorn Limestone rock layer…

📍 Lincoln County

8 WONDERS OF KANSAS CUSTOMS FINALIST

Post Rock Museum

The museum building was moved stone by stone to this site from…

📍 LaCrosse, Rush County

MUSEUM

Post Rock Scout Museum and Crispin's…

Two museums, owned  by husband and wife, Jack and Kathi Crispin, are…

📍 Lincoln, Lincoln County

COURTHOUSE

Pottawatomie County Courthouse

Constructed of native limestone and built in 1884, this was the second…

📍 Westmoreland, Pottawatomie County

HISTORIC BARN

Pottawatomie County Fair Pavilion

In its original location at the fairgrounds, this 1921 octagonal barn was…

📍 Onaga, Pottawatomie County

MARSH ARCH RAINBOW BRIDGE

Pottawatomie Creek Bridge

A sister to the Creamery Bridge, Pottawatomie Creek Bridge on S. 6th…

📍 Osawatomie, Miami County

HISTORIC OPERA HOUSE

Potter's Opera House

Town blacksmith Garner T. Potter built this native limestone opera house during…

📍 Coolidge, Hamilton County

HISTORIC BRIDGE

Potts Ford Historic Bridge

Here a one-lane 1884 iron truss bridge built by the Wrought Iron…

📍 Glasco, Cloud County

ARCHITECTURE

Potwin Place Historic District

From 1888 to 1899 Potwin Place was a separate city from Topeka,…

📍 Topeka, Shawnee County

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