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Lyons Main Street (U.S. Highway 56) is based on the Santa Fe Trail. In 1854, the Kansas Territory was organized, then in 1861 Kansas became the 34th U.S. state. In 1867, Rice County was founded. Lyons was originally called Atlanta, and under the latter name was founded in 1870. It was renamed Lyons in 1876, in honor of Freeman J. Lyons. [5]
Rice County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas.Its county seat and largest city is Lyons. [3] As of the 2020 census, the county population was 9,427. [1] The county was named in memory of Samuel Allen Rice, Brigadier-General, United States volunteers, killed April 30, 1864, at Jenkins Ferry, Arkansas.
The Rice County Courthouse of Lyons, Kansas is located at 101 W. Commercial St. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. [1]Designed by architects J.C. Holland and Son, it is a four-story, Richardsonian Romanesque-style brick building which is 90 by 100 feet (27 m × 30 m) in plan.
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places website since that time. [3]
Lyon County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas.Its county seat and largest city is Emporia. [3] As of the 2020 census, the county population was 32,179. [1] The county was named for Nathaniel Lyon, a general who was killed at the Battle of Wilson's Creek during the American Civil War.
Quivira was a province of the ancestral Wichita people, [1] located near the Great Bend of the Arkansas River in central Kansas, [1] The exact site may be near present-day Lyons extending northeast to Salina. The Wichita city of Etzanoa, which flourished between 1450 and 1700, is likely part of Quivira. [2]
The Kansas City area can boast more than 30 restaurants that have been around for at least five decades. ... Flashing red neon signs — “Since 1919” — broadcast the 103-year history to the ...
After the war, Kansas was home to Wild West towns servicing the cattle trade. With the railroads came heavy immigration from the East, from Europe, and from Freedmen called "Exodusters". For much of its history, Kansas has had a rural economy based on wheat and other crops, supplemented by oil and railroads. Since 1945 the farm population has ...