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8 ELEMENTS OF KANSAS RURAL CULTURE

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CEMETERY

T.J. Losey Memorial

Take a seat on a bench as you admire the detail on…

📍 Columbus, Cherokee County

PEOPLE

Tammy Faye Bakker Messner

Many are surprised to learn that once-famous evangelist and TV talk show…

📍 Waldron, Harper County

HISTORIC SCHOOL

Tauy Jones Hall

In 1833, when the Ottawa tribe was removed to a reservation in…

📍 Ottawa, Franklin County

HISTORIC BUILDING(S)

Territorial Land Office

The original 1854 building was the area's first land office. A plaque…

📍 Osawatomie, Miami County

GEOGRAPHY

Teter Rock

Around the late 1870s James Teter piled rocks as a marker to…

📍 Teterville, Greenwood County

TOWN STORY

The Appeal to Reason

When J.A. Wayland moved the socialist newspaper The Appeal to Reason to…

📍 Girard, Crawford County

PEOPLE

Thomas Carney (1824-1888)

Carney was the second governor of Kansas, serving from 1863 to 1864.…

📍 Lansing, Leavenworth County

MEMORIAL

Thomas Edison Memorial

A rare Kansas memorial to Thomas Edison stands across from the old…

📍 Mankato, Jewell County

PARK

Tootle Park

Milton Tootle owned the land designated for the townsite, thus the name…

📍 Miltonvale, Cloud County

TORNADO MEMORIAL

Tornado of 1955 Memorial

On May 25, 1955, Udall was wiped out by a vicious tornado,…

📍 Udall, Cowley County

MEMORIAL

Town Founder

As you cross the Solomon River on Mill (becomes K-106), notice the…

📍 Minneapolis, Ottawa County

PEOPLE

Town Monument

A large limestone marker at the City Park entrance bears the town…

📍 Muscotah, Atchison County

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