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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

HISTORY

Catharine

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

📍 Catharine, Ellis County

ART

Cemetery Art

Ernest White was the artist, welder, and sculptor of the entrance arch…

📍 Blaine, Pottawatomie County

CEMETERY

Cemetery Folk Art

Here you'll find the first of several folk-art gravestones created by local…

📍 Hoisington, Barton County

MEMORIAL

Chanute-Wright Brothers' Memorial

A huge kinetic biplane sculpture stands as a memorial to Octave Chanute,…

📍 Chanute, Neosho County

BRONZE STATUE

Chaplain Kapaun Statue

Southwest of St. John Nepomucene Church. Father Kapaun (8 Wonders of Kansas…

📍 Pilsen, Marion County

ARCHITECTURE

Charles Pilla House

This magnificent 1894 Victorian mansion overlooking the town square was built by…

📍 Eudora, Douglas County

MUSICIAN

Chely Wright

A sign at the city entrance proclaims that Wellsville is home to…

📍 Wellsville, Franklin County

NATIVE AMERICAN

Cherry Creek Encampment

The Cheyenne survivors (83 men and 95 women and children) of the…

📍 Cheyenne County

CEMETERY

Cheyenne Valley Cemetery

Sergeant Jack Weinstein was bestowed the Medal of Honor posthumously in 2014…

📍 Wheeler, Cheyenne County

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