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8 ELEMENTS OF KANSAS RURAL CULTURE

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GROCERY

Dillons Grocery Store

Future grocery store magnate John S. Dillon started his business in Sterling…

📍 Sterling, Rice County

TOWN STORY

Don't Spit on the Sidewalk

Cherryvale was once home to seven brick plants, including one that produced…

📍 Cherryvale, Montgomery County

CEMETERY

Doniphan Cemetery

The view from the cemetery of the Missouri River, bluffs, valley, and…

📍 Doniphan, Doniphan County

MEMORIAL

Doniphan County Courthouse Grounds

Gracing these environs are a replica Statue of Liberty, a plaque to…

📍 Troy, Doniphan County

PARK

Donna Harris Memorial Park

The Donna Harris Memorial Park is accented with lovely landscaping, a fountain,…

📍 Garnett, Anderson County

MURAL

Drayman Outdoor Mural

In 1980 Steve Murill painted an early-1920s depiction of Bill Ridgeway, the…

📍 Tonganoxie, Leavenworth County

HISTORY

Duncan's Crossing

Markers near the Hodgeman and Ness county line note Duncan's Crossing, a…

📍 Hodgeman County

PEOPLE

Dying Protest

When Nathaniel Grigsby, childhood friend of Abraham Lincoln and a Union veteran,…

📍 Attica, Harper County

AFRICAN AMERICAN

E. J. Alexander

For almost 30 years E.J. Alexander drove his team of white horses…

📍 Emporia, Lyon County

PEOPLE

E.E. Frizell

In 1902 E.E. Frizell purchased Fort Larned and developed it into a…

📍 Larned, Pawnee County

PEOPLE

Earl W. Sutherland Jr.

Burlingame native Earl Sutherland won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine…

📍 Burlingame, Osage County

CEMETERY

Edgar Miller Grave

The story is that in 1864, during a summer of unrest on…

📍 Canton, McPherson County

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