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The Kansas City Southern's Southern Belle at Pittsburg in 1967 Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church (2012) The first dwelling was built by J. T. Roach in July 1876. [11] The first post office in Pittsburg was established in August, 1876. The post office's name was shortened from "New Pittsburgh" to "Pittsburgh" in 1881 and to "Pittsburg" in 1894 ...
Located in southeast Kansas, the school is on a 223-acre (0.90 km 2) campus. [11] Porter Hall (1927) is named for Ebenezer F. Porter, a state legislator who helped establish and fund the school. [12] The campus includes the $30 million Kansas Technology Center, a state-of-the-art technology program in the largest academic building in Kansas. [13]
One of the oldest continuously running coal companies in the United States was the Pittsburg & Midway Coal Company, founded in Pittsburg, Kansas in 1885. It lasted under that name even after its move to Denver, Colorado when the Kansas mines closed, until September 2007, when Chevron which owned the company, merged it with its Molycorp Inc. coal mining division to form Chevron Mining, thus ...
Crawford County is a county located in Southeast Kansas.Its county seat is Girard, [3] and its most populous city is Pittsburg.As of the 2020 census, the county population was 38,972. [1]
Pittsburg Township is a civil township in Mitchell County, Kansas, United States. Its area includes the point at the intersection of Latitude 39.35 and Longitude -98.43333. The township's name is derived from William Augustus Pitt, one of the founders of the central town of the township, Tipton.
Mt. Carmel Hospital was founded in 1903 by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Wichita, Kansas under the direction of Mother Mary Bernard Sheridan, [2] incidentally the same year as the founding of Pittsburg State University.
The history of Pittsburgh began with centuries of Native American civilization in the modern Pittsburgh region, known as Jaödeogë’ in the Seneca language. [1] Eventually, European explorers encountered the strategic confluence where the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers meet to form the Ohio , which leads to the Mississippi River.
A New History of Kansas (1895) online; Miner, Craig. Kansas: The History of the Sunflower State, 1854–2000 (2002) (ISBN 0-7006-1215-7), the newest standard history; Napier, Rita, ed. Kansas and the West: New Perspectives (University Press of Kansas, 2003), 416pp; essays by scholars; Rich, Everett, ed.