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8 ELEMENTS OF KANSAS RURAL CULTURE

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ARCHITECTURE

A.C. Flack Home

See a textbook example of a Queen Anne cottage home built by…

📍 Fredonia, Wilson County

CEMETERY

A.L. Moffat

With a touch of humor, the small red granite gravestone for A.L.…

📍 Kinsley, Edwards County

HISTORIC HOME

A.L. Wynkoop Home

In 1912 local carpenter and contractor Ely Saunders interpreted the popular Prairie…

📍 Highland, Doniphan County

AFRICAN AMERICAN

Aaron Douglas Celebration Mural Wall

Artists Dave Loewenstein and Stan Herd mentored a large group of Topekans…

📍 Topeka, Shawnee County

HISTORIC BUILDING

Abandoned Livery Stable

Plat maps show a native limestone structure at 1st and Otis that…

📍 Beverly, Lincoln County

ABANDONED REMAINS

Abandoned Rectory

look west to see two sets of four red-brick gate pillars, turn…

📍 Abilene, Dickinson County

EXCURSION RIDE

Abilene and Smoky Valley Railroad

Board the train at the 1887 Rock Island depot at Old Abilene…

📍 Abilene, Dickinson County

CEMETERY

Abilene Cemetery

David and Ida Eisenhower, C.W. Parker, A.B. Seelye, Alva Duckwall, 1870 marshal…

📍 Abilene, Dickinson County

HISTORIC STRUCTURE

Abilene Stadium

At this 1938 WPA limestone stadium on June 6, 1952, General Dwight…

📍 Abilene, Dickinson County

PEOPLE

Abner Yates

In 1875 a debate ensued about the location of the county seat.…

📍 Yates Center, Woodson County

STATUE

Abraham Lincoln

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's speech in Leavenworth and the…

📍 Leavenworth, Leavenworth County

HISTORIC FARMSTEAD

Abram Click Farmstead

Park in the driveway and walk around this circa 1880s limestone Gothic…

📍 Beloit, Mitchell County

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