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Kingman Santa Fe Depot. / 37.64163; -98.11179. The Kingman Santa Fe Depot, or Kingman AT&SF Depot, is a former railway station in Kingman, Kansas. It is located at 201 East Sherman Street, which parallels the railroad tracks. [2] The station building was opened in 1910 as a passenger depot for the Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railway.
The Kansas Historical Society is the official state historical society of Kansas . Headquartered in Topeka, it operates as "the trustee of the state" for the purpose of maintaining the state's history and operates the Kansas Museum of History, Kansas State Archives and Library, Kansas State Capitol Tour Center, and 16 state-owned sites.
The Whiteford (Price) Archeological Site, designated by the Smithsonian trinomial 14SA1, is an archaeological site located in a rural area between Salina and New Cambria, Kansas, United States. [2] [3] As a National Historic Landmark, it is an important Central Plains habitation site, with an unusually well-preserved burial complex.
The National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri was opened in 1926 as the Liberty Memorial. In 2004, it was designated by the United States Congress as the country's official war memorial and museum dedicated to World War I. A non-profit organization manages it in cooperation with the Kansas City Board of Parks and ...
Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas, or the Border War was a series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory, and to a lesser extent in western Missouri, between 1854 and 1859. It emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas . The conflict was characterized by years of ...
The first Kansas regiment was called on June 3, 1861, and the seventeenth, the last raised during the Civil War, on July 28, 1864. The entire quota assigned to Kansas was 16,654, and the number raised was 20,097, leaving a surplus of 3,443 to the credit of Kansas. About 1,000 Kansans joined Confederate forces since a number of people from the ...
Action at Blue Mills Landing. Portrait by George Caleb Bingham. Statue in front of the Clinton County Courthouse, Plattsburg, Missouri. David Rice Atchison (August 11, 1807 – January 26, 1886) was a mid-19th century Democratic [ 1] United States Senator from Missouri. [ 1] He served as President pro tempore of the United States Senate for six ...
Free-Stater (Kansas) 1855 Free-State poster in Kansas Territory, calling for action against slavery supporters and slavery-supporting laws. Free-Staters was the name given to settlers in Kansas Territory during the "Bleeding Kansas" period in the 1850s who opposed the expansion of slavery. The name derives from the term "free state", that is, a ...