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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 ...
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places website since that time. [3]
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.
Kansas State University: 1874: The Industrial Workshop was one of two original educational buildings on the campus when Kansas State relocated to its current location in 1875. The building now forms a part of Seaton Court. [8] [9] Holtz Hall: Kansas State University: 1876: Oldest free-standing building on the Kansas State University campus. [8 ...
Linton was a professor of food science at Purdue University (1994–2011). From 2011 to 2012, he was the department chair of food science and technology at Ohio State University. In 2012, he became dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Science at North Carolina State University, a position he held for 10 years. [1]
James A. Berlin – theorist in the field of composition studies and the history of rhetoric and composition theory; Marianne Boruch – poet and essayist; Robert X. Browning – Professor of Political Science; Ronald Verlin Cassill – novelist, short story writer, reviewer, editor, painter, and lithographer; Philip B. Coulter – political ...
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 .
Cutler, William G. History of the State of Kansas (1883), detailed, reliable older history; Davis, Kenneth. Kansas: A History (1984) Dean, Virgil W., ed. John Brown to Bob Dole: Movers and Shakers in Kansas History (2010), 27 short biographies by scholars; Gille, Frank H. ed. Encyclopedia of Kansas Indians Tribes, Nations and People of the ...