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For many decades, it was a tourist trap called the Indian Burial Pit or Salina Burial Pit. [7] [5] It was declared a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1964. [2] [3] In 1989, the state of Kansas purchased the site. In 1990, the pit was filled with sand and covered with a concrete cap to protect it, then covered with dirt and grass.
New Deal-Era Resources of Kansas MPS: 4: Flanders-Lee House and Carriage House: Flanders-Lee House and Carriage House: August 20, 1987 : 200 S. 7th St. Salina: 5: Fox-Watson Theater Building: Fox-Watson Theater Building
The Salina Stockade was built in Salina, Kansas, to provide the residents with protection from the American Indians in the area, many of whom were hostile toward white settlement. Salina had been raided in 1862 by Native Americans and then Confederate guerrillas, but it was not until May 1864 when residents decided they needed to build a ...
Salina / s ə ˈ l aɪ n ə / is a city in and the county seat of Saline County, Kansas, United States. [1] As of the 2020 census, the population was 46,889. [4] [5]In the early 1800s, the Kanza tribal land reached eastward from the middle of the Kansas Territory.
In 1803, most of the land for modern day Kansas was acquired by the United States from France as part of the 828,000 square mile Louisiana Purchase for 2.83 cents per acre. In 1848, after the Mexican–American War , the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo with Spain brought into the United States all or part of land for ten future states, including ...
Some 1,000 years ago, a 15-year-old girl died in England. Her feet were then bound and she was placed face down in a pit where she was left until about 2018.
The Fox–Watson Theatre was opened in late February 1931 by Winfield W. Watson, a local businessman and banker. He led the campaign and donated the land, to bring a movie house to Salina. Fox West Coast Theatres built the art deco style movie house at a cost of US$400,000 (equivalent to $7,098,000 in 2023).
After a re-examination of the original 1920s discovery, experts now believe even more strongly that King Tut’s golden burial mask wasn’t originally intended for him at all and was likely ...