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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 .
Largest community-rolled ball of twine, located in Cawker City, Kansas (2013) There are multiple claims to the world's biggest ball of twine record, all within the United States. As of 2014 [update] , the ball of twine with the largest circumference is located in Cawker City, Kansas , measured at 8.06 feet (2.46 m) in diameter and 10.83 feet (3 ...
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.
The gigantic ball, was donated to Cawker City, Kansas in 1961. In 1973, Guinness World Records certified it was the largest ball of twine at the time (though others have since claimed the record).
The Old Cawker City Library at 7th and Lake Sts. in Cawker City, Kansas, United States, was built in 1885. It is a public library which also serves as the headquarters of the North Central Kansas Genealogical Society. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. [1]
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Doyle Merwin Coad was born on a farm in 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.
Berry formed the first temperance society in Cawker. [1] On April 14, 1887, she became the president of the sixth district of the Kansas WCTU. On February 28, 1889, she was elected to the office of treasurer of the Kansas WCTU, and her yearly re-election proved her faithfulness. [4] Berry held a WCTU district convention in Lincoln, Kansas ...