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Abilene (/ ˈ æ b ɪ l iː n / AB-i-leen) is a city in Taylor and Jones counties, Texas, United States.Its population was 125,182 at the 2020 census. [9] It is the principal city of the Abilene metropolitan statistical area, which had a population of 176,579 as of 2020. [10]
In 1854, the Kansas Territory was organized, then in 1861 Kansas became the 34th U.S. state. In 1857, Dickinson County was founded and Abilene began as a stage coach stop, established by Timothy Hersey and named Mud Creek.
The Abilene Downtown Historic District is a historic district in Abilene, Kansas which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. The district is roughly bounded by Northeast 4th, West 1st, South Walnut, and North Olive Street. [1]
Abilene, Texas; Abilene Network, the American national academic backbone network; Abilene paradox, a form of dysfunctional group dynamics "Abilene" (song), a 1963 song recorded by George Hamilton IV; Abilene and Smoky Valley Railroad, in Abilene, Kansas; Abilene and Southern Railway, taken over by Missouri Pacific Railroad in 1978
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Herbert R. Gibson and his wife, Belva, opened Gibson Products Co., a wholesale novelty company, in 1936 in Abilene, Texas. [1] By the late 1950s, Gibson had decided to refocus on discounting, and he opened the first Gibson's Discount Center in Abilene in 1960. [2] The company grew mostly by franchising the store concept to others.
The Abilene Trail was a cattle trail leading from Texas to Abilene, Kansas. Its exact route is disputed owing to its many offshoots, but it crossed the Red River just east of Henrietta, Texas, and continued north across the Indian Territory to Caldwell, Kansas and on past Wichita and Newton to Abilene. The first herds were probably driven over ...
1922 and 1927: legal battles Kansas against the Ku Klux Klan, resulting in their expulsion from the state. 1925: Flag of Kansas designed by Hazel Avery. [4] 1928: Charles Curtis of Topeka, first Native American to be elected as Vice-President of United States [5] 1927: flag officially adopted by the Kansas State Legislature.