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Old Prairie Town at Ward-Meade Historic Site is a 5.5-acre (2.2 ha) open-air museum, park and historic site located in Topeka, Kansas. [3] Old Prairie Town is a county entity, operated by the Shawnee County, Kansas Parks and Recreation Department with a Recreation Program Supervisor and additional staff plus volunteers.
900, 902, and 904 S. Kansas Ave. Topeka: Turn-of-the-20th-century classical revival furniture warehouse significant in Topeka's commercial history. [6] Contributing site of the South Kansas Avenue Commercial Historic District. 41: HTK Architects Office Building
A cemetery that has a reputation for being a gateway to Hell and a place that The Devil reportedly haunts. [4] America City Cemetery: Near Havensville: Nemaha: Boy's Industrial School Cemetery: Topeka: Shawnee: Originally named the State Reform School and later the State Industrial School for Boys, at Topeka. [5] A small cemetery containing the ...
Shawnee County Parks and Recreation will host on Friday and Saturday a two-day 150-year celebration of the Ward-Meade Mansion at Old Prairie Town, 124 N.W. Fillmore St.
St. Marys, Kansas: 1855 Mission building Oldest building remaining at St. Mary's Mission (Kansas) 1734 Kent Terrace Lawrence, Kansas: 1855 Residence Oldest house in Lawrence [7] Levi Flint House: Johnson County, Kansas: c. 1856 Residence [8] Ritchie House: Topeka, Kansas: 1856 Residence Oldest house in Topeka [9] Barnes Apple Barn: Baldwin City ...
Agriculture-Related Resources of Kansas MPS: 2: Benson Culvert: Benson Culvert: December 3, 2013 : 6 mi. S. & 9 mi. W. of Gove: Gove: Masonry Arch Bridges of Kansas Thematic Resource 3: Grainfield Opera House: Grainfield Opera House: November 28, 1980
Politics: In Kansas, the political atmosphere was highly divided. Towns were either proslavery or abolitionist. When Kansas became a free state in 1861, proslavery towns died out. Survival of a town also depended on it winning the county seat. Towns that were contenders for the county seat and lost typically had most, if not all, of their town ...
Prairie Home Cemetery is the oldest cemetery in Moorhead, Minnesota. The cemetery was founded in 1875 by the Rev. Oscar Elmer, a Presbyterian minister who was the first ordained member of Christian clergy in Fargo–Moorhead. Rev. Elmer's brother John had drowned in the Red River of the North while visiting from New York in 1874. The condition ...