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8 ELEMENTS OF KANSAS RURAL CULTURE

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PEOPLE

Oscar Micheaux (1884-1951)

Raised in Great Bend, Micheaux became the first black person to produce…

📍 Great Bend, Barton County

MUSEUM

Oswego Historical Museum

Early history exhibits include display cases of WPA dolls and a collection…

📍 Oswego, Labette County

CEMETERY

Ottawa Baptist Mission and Burial Ground

On one of the stone entrance pillars a plaque reads, "Jotham Meeker,…

📍 Ottawa, Franklin County

8 WONDERS OF KANSAS PEOPLE

Ottawa County Museum

A major section of this museum is devoted to George Washington Carver,…

📍 Minneapolis, Ottawa County

MURAL(S)

Outdoor Book Mural

Are those books real? No, but they look like it! This colorful…

📍 Tonganoxie, Leavenworth County

GEOGRAPHY

Ozawkie

Founded in 1855 and originally named Osawkee for a Sauk Indian chief,…

📍 Ozawkie, Jefferson County

CEMETERY

Paola Cemetery

The graves of early Indians and descendants of Baptiste Peoria are found…

📍 Paola, Miami County

PARK

Park Square

Baptiste Peoria gave this plot of land to the Paola Town Company…

📍 Paola, Miami County

NATIVE AMERICAN

Pawnee Nation

For hundreds of years much of present Kansas and Nebraska was home…

📍 Republic County

PARK

Peabody Pocket Park

The Peabody Opera House, which once stood on this site, is where…

📍 Peabody, Marion County

PARK

Peggy's Place

When local resident Bill Hamann returned home to spend his retirement years,…

📍 Tribune, Greeley County

MURAL(S)

People of Tonganoxie Outdoor Mural

In the same pocket park as the book mural artist Kelly Poling…

📍 Tonganoxie, Leavenworth County

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