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8 ELEMENTS OF KANSAS RURAL CULTURE

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MURAL

Avenue of Murals

Public art brightly celebrates the history and culture of Kansas City and…

📍 Kansas City, Wyandotte County

CURIOSITY

Barbara and Mabel Streets

Why does the town have streets named Barbara and Mabel? Barbara was…

📍 Havensville, Pottawatomie County

HISTORIC HOME

Barbeau House

Settling in the area in the 1880s, French-Canadian Joseph Barbeau became an…

📍 Lenora, Norton County

MUSEUM

Barton County Historical Museum

The museum complex includes a schoolhouse, depot, post office, Waupun windmill, 1873…

📍 Great Bend, Barton County

ART

Bas-Relief Sculpture

(On the former Citizen's State Bank). This bas-relief mural by Jack Curran…

📍 Morland, Graham County

MUSEUM

Basehor Historical Museum

The town and the museum are named for brothers Ephraim and Reuben…

📍 Basehor, Leavenworth County

HISTORICAL MARKER

Battle of the Spurs Historical Marker

From 4th in Holton, 7½ miles north on U.S. 75 to 286.…

📍 Holton, Jackson County

HISTORICAL MARKER

Baxter Springs Black Dog Trail Marker

Chief Black Dog was born around 1780 and for a time his…

📍 Baxter Springs, Cherokee County

JEWISH

Beersheba

This first Jewish agricultural colony in Kansas was established in present Finney…

📍 Finney County

CEMETERY

Bell-Bogardus Cemetery

Just 600 feet north you'll find the small cemetery nestled among the…

📍 Mitchell County

ARCHITECTURE

Belmont Castle

This captivating stone home was a labor of love built for Dominica…

📍 Independence, Montgomery County

MEMORIAL

Benjamin Hobbs

In 1933 local students created an endearing tribute to the county's first…

📍 Howard, Elk County

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