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8 ELEMENTS OF KANSAS RURAL CULTURE

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MURAL

Carriage Works Factory

The 1875 factory along Rock Creek has been rehabilitated into a private…

📍 Burlington, Coffey County

PEOPLE

Carrie Nation

Historic photos in the public library and city office document famous temperance…

📍 Enterprise, Dickinson County

OIL AND GAS

Carrie Oswald No. 1

Find Fairport by going 1 mile west of Gorham on Balta (Old…

📍 Fairport, Russell County

HISTORIC HOME

Carroll Mansion

All the original furniture has been replaced because in 1964, Ella Carroll,…

📍 Leavenworth, Leavenworth County

PEOPLE

Carry Nation

This temperance firebrand's saloon-smashing crusade began in Kiowa on June 1, 1900—and…

📍 Kiowa, Barber County

HISTORIC WATER FOUNTAIN

Carry Nation Fountain

In Naftzger Park take a sip from the 1918 fountain named for…

📍 Wichita, Sedgwick County

8 WONDERS OF KANSAS PEOPLE

Carry Nation Home

The home, on its original site, was declared a National Historic Landmark…

📍 Medicine Lodge, Barber County

BAR AND GRILL

Carry Nation Was Here?

The bar's interior still preserves the damage by Carry Nation (8 Wonders…

📍 Anthony, Harper County

MUSEUM

Cassoday Historical Museum

Inside an original Santa Fe depot, the museum preserves Cassoday's heyday as…

📍 Cassoday, Butler County

8 WONDERS OF KANSAS OVERALL

Castle Rock

Once much larger, Castle Rock has been whittled away by wind and…

📍 Quinter, Gove County

HISTORY

Catharine

Unincorporated. Immigrants that came from Katharinestadt, Russia, in 1876 established Catharine. A…

📍 Catharine, Ellis County

HISTORIC CHURCH

Cathedral of the Flint Hills

Built of tapestry brick with limestone trim, the 1922 Sacred Heart Church…

📍 Newbury, Wabaunsee County

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