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The MS Mitch Mitchell Floodway, formerly the Wichita-Valley Center Floodway and known locally as “The Big Ditch”, is a canal in Wichita, Kansas, United States. [1] Built in the 1950s after a series of floods in the preceding decades, the Floodway diverts water from Chisholm Creek, the Little Arkansas River, and the Arkansas River to the west, around central Wichita, before emptying back ...
Darius Sales Munger House, built in 1868, is the oldest surviving building in Witchita. [3]Pioneer trader Jesse Chisholm, a half-white, half-Native American who was illiterate but who spoke multiple Native American languages, established a trading post at the site in the 1860s, and Chisholm traded cattle and goods with the Wichita tribe at points south along a trail from Wichita into present ...
Residential Resources of Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas 1870–1957 MPS. The district is a 40-acre property northwest of Wichita's aircraft related industrial district. It consists of Linwood Place Addition and Darrah’s First Addition platted in 1943 and 1949, respectively.
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1864 - Jesse Chisholm establishes a trading post; 1865 - Treaty of Little Arkansas; 1868 - James R. Mead established another trading post; 1870 - City of Wichita incorporated in Sedgwick County, Kansas. [1] 1872 Santa Fe Railway built. [2] The Wichita Eagle and The Wichita Daily Beacon newspapers begins publication. [3] [4]
Margaret Heffernan Borland (April 3, 1824 – July 5, 1873) was a pioneering frontier woman who ran her own ranch, as well as handled her own herds. She made a name for herself as a cattle baron and was famous for the drive of Texas Longhorn cattle that she took up the Chisholm Trail from Texas to Wichita, Kansas, with her three surviving children and her granddaughter. [1]
An 88-year-old man stabbed his elderly wife to death in front of her horrified family inside their Staten Island home Thursday night, police sources said. ... 30 p.m. on Caramel Court in Dongan ...
In March 2008, Routh issued limited editions of his original paintings through Chisholm Gallery. [4] Jonathan Routh has been represented by Chisholm Gallery, LLC for over 35 years. [5] Routh's paintings of nuns and Queen Victoria were turned into a number of books: Jamaica Holiday: The secret life of Queen Victoria. London: Harmony Hall, 1984.