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Ward-Meade Park Botanical Gardens 2.5 acres (10,000 m 2) are botanical gardens located in Historic Ward-Meade Park at 124 NW Fillmore Street, Topeka, Kansas, United States. The gardens feature more than 500 varieties of flowers, shrubs, and trees, all labeled with their botanical names, as well as a water garden with a footbridge, a gazebo and ...
The name "Topeka" is a Kansa-Osage word that means "place where we dig potatoes", [11] or "a good place to dig potatoes". [citation needed] As a placename, Topeka was first recorded in 1826 as the Kansa name for what is now called the Kansas River. Topeka's founders chose the name in 1855 because it "was novel, of Indian origin, and euphonious ...
Universities and colleges in Topeka, Kansas (2 P) Pages in category "Tourist attractions in Topeka, Kansas" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
The Ward-Meade house is considered the first mansion built in Topeka. Construction began in 1870, the same year as the first wing of the Statehouse. Anthony Ward was a wheelwright who held the sand rights on the Kansas River near his house. He sold sand to the builders of Topeka and made wheels for wagons that carried settlers to California.
The Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library is a municipal taxing district authorized by Kansas law. It is governed by a board of trustees consisting of ten members. The library offers many services to the public including senior/homebound delivery, work and home delivery, bookmobile services, curbside pickup, public computers, meeting rooms ...
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Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Topeka, Kansas" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
That site says free K-TAG stickers will be handed out this week in Topeka beginning at 9 a.m. Tuesday at Equity Bank, 701 S. Kansas Ave.; 3 p.m. Tuesday at Equity Bank, 3825 S.W. 29th; 12:30 p.m ...