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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28NJ_alfred-m-landon-state-office-building_Topeka-KS.html
Purchase from the Santa Fe Railway Co. and renovated for state office facilities
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28NI_church-of-the-assumption_Topeka-KS.html
This property, formerly Hayden High School, is part of the Church of the Assumption Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28NE_samuel-j-crumbine-md_Topeka-KS.html
"I began to realize, as I never had before, how much the health of each of us depends on the health of all of us."
Frontier physician, public health visionary and child health advocate, Samuel J. Crumbine was a man of tremendous curiosity whose…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28LH_capital-city-of-kansas_Topeka-KS.html
Before it became the Kansas capital, Topeka was the seat of a free-state government — an alternative to the official proslavery territorial legislature elected in 1855. These two bodies represented opposing factions in Kansas' battle over sl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28LG_fool-chiefs-village_Topeka-KS.html
The Kansa, for whom the state is named, once occupied 20 million acres of land in eastern and northern Kansas. In 1825 the U.S. government reduced the lands to a reservation west of Topeka. In 1846 tribe members were sent to a 256,000 acre reserva…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21ZK_fort-scott-national-cemetery_Fort-Scott-KS.html
Civil War Fort Scott
Fort Scott, founded 1842, was named for former commander-in-chief of the U.S. Army, Gen. Winfield Scott. The army abandoned the fort in 1853, but the Civil War prompted federal troops to return in 1862. Fort Scott became the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21ZI_a-national-cemetery-system_Fort-Scott-KS.html
Civil War Dead
An estimated 700,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died in the Civil War between April 1861 and April 1865. As the death toll rose, the U.S. government struggled with the urgent but unplanned need to bury fallen Union troops. This…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YOV_towanda_El-Dorado-KS.html
The town and township lie tucked in the pleasant valley of the Whitewater River, and take their name from the Osage Indian term "many waters." First settler was C.L. Chandler, a returning '49er from the California gold fields who built his cabin i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YN0_temple-b-nai-jeshurun_Leavenworth-KS.html
On this site the first Jewish place of worship in the state of Kansas was built. After a large Jewish community established residence in Leavenworth City, Kansas Territory. Temple B'Nai Jeshurun was constructed in 1866. Initially, the first group …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y6K_lawrence-and-the-old-trails_Lawrence-KS.html
Between Lawrence and Topeka, the Kansas turnpike passes near the route of the old Oregon-California Trail, traveled in the 1800s by explorers, missionaries, soldiers, emigrants in search of land, and forty-niners in search of gold. Fifteen miles s…