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8 ELEMENTS OF KANSAS RURAL CULTURE

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NATURE

Mound City Trees

The redbuds in the spring and the sugar maples in the fall…

📍 Mound City, Linn County

CEMETERY

Mount Hope Cemetery Carillon

Mount Hope Cemetery is home to the first singing tower in a…

📍 Topeka, Shawnee County

ART

Murals and Sculptures in Salina

Sculptures and murals abound in Salina. In fact, each year Sculpture Tour…

📍 Salina, Saline County

MUSEUM

National Foundation for Carnival Heritage Center

Between 1904 and the 1980s Kinsley was home to six carnival companies.…

📍 Kinsley, Edwards County

WEATHER

National Weather Service

Every Kansan should experience how the weather service works, and the Goodland…

📍 Goodland, Sherman County

KANSAS SCENIC BYWAY

Native Stone Fences

When the federal government abolished the open range in 1867, it paid…

📍 Wabaunsee County

KANSAS SCENIC BYWAY

Native Stone Scenic Byway

The route comprises 48 miles of winding, stair-stepping roads past stone fences…

📍 Wabaunsee County

HIGHEST POINT

Netawaka

Netawaka is the Kickapoo word for "high view." You'll find one of…

📍 Netawaka, Jackson County

HISTORIC CHURCH

New Gottland Lutheran Church

Travelers on K-135 have long noticed the red-brick church with the simple…

📍 McPherson, McPherson County

RODEO

Night Rodeo

Since 1937 the town has been home to Kansas' largest night rodeo.…

📍 Pretty Prairie, Reno County

BREWERY

Not Lost Brewing

With beer names like Wander Pale and Worth the Climb, you get…

📍 Ottawa, Franklin County

QUIRKY

Nothing Sign

In 1986 residents Virgil and Faith Meyer erected a sign that read,…

📍 Carlton, Dickinson County

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