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Cawker City is a city in Mitchell County, Kansas, United States. [1] As of the 2020 census , the population of the city was 457. [ 3 ] The city is located along the north shore of Waconda Lake and Glen Elder State Park .
Waconda Spring, or Great Spirit Spring, [1] was a natural artesian spring located in Mitchell County, near the communities of Glen Elder and Cawker City in the U.S. state of Kansas. It was a sacred site for Native American tribes of the Great Plains and, for a time, became the site of a health spa for American settlers.
Prior to the building of Glen Elder Dam, the present-day site of Waconda Lake was the location of Waconda Spring, a natural flowing artesian well, from which the lake was named. To capitalize on it, in 1904 the Cawker City Mineral Company opened a resort on the site of the spring.
Cawker City, Kansas – E.H. Cawker [115] Cazenovia, 4 places in Illinois, Minnesota, New York, and Wisconsin – Theophilus Cazenove (land agent) (The New York town is the original, and the others were named for it). [117] Cecilton, Maryland - Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore [117]
Martia L. Davis Berry (née, Davis; January 22, 1844 – January 13, 1894) was a 19th-century American social reformer.From her childhood, she took for her life motto and work, "God and home and native land" in whatever opportunities might be available to her. [1]
The city's Sesotho name is Mangaung, meaning "place of cheetahs." South Korea: see K on this page South Sudan: Juba: The name is derived from Djouba, another name for the Bari people. Spain: Madrid (1561–1600): There are several theories regarding the origin of the name "Madrid". According to legend Madrid was founded by Ocno Bianor (son of ...
Waconda USD 272 is a public unified school district headquartered in Cawker City, Kansas, United States. [1] The district includes the communities of Cawker City , Downs , Glen Elder , Tipton , and nearby rural areas.
Doyle Merwin Coad was born on a farm in Mitchell County, Kansas near Cawker City, Kansas. [1] He moved with his parents to a farm in Nemaha County, Nebraska , near Auburn, Nebraska . He graduated from high school in Auburn in 1941.