Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
The Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to preserving and presenting the local history of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States. It is located at 204 South Main (southeast of the corner of Main and William streets), and east of the former Wichita Public Library .
K-254 was first authorized to become a state highway in a May 9, 1956 resolution once Butler and Sedgwick counties had brought the route up to state highway standards. [1] Then by June 1957, Butler county had finished projects and in a June 26, 1957 resolution it was established as a state highway from the Sedgwick–Butler County line to K-196 ...
WSU Special Collections and University Archives includes rare books, incunabula, historical Kansas maps, photographs, records of the history of [Wichita State University] (as well as its preceding institutions, the University of Wichita and Fairmount College) and a growing manuscript collection of more than 700,000 documents.
Park Elementary School. Address: 1025 N. Main, just east of Ninth and Waco Enrollment: 439 — 66% Hispanic, 13% Black, 12% white, 7% multiracial, 2% other races Opened: 1921 The history of Park ...
Wichita (/ ˈ w ɪ tʃ ɪ t ɔː / ⓘ WITCH-ih-taw) [10] is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Sedgwick County. [3] As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 397,532, [5] [6] and the Wichita metro area had a population of 647,610. [8]
As the Wichita school board considers the fate of six longtime schools — including the oldest operating in the district — the possible closures have become a highly emotional topic.