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After the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad steamed its first passenger train into Emporia on Sept. 14, 1870, towns began to spring up along the railroad grade southwest of Emporia at Florence, Peabody and Walton.
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Welcome to a new school year! It has been a joy to see our teachers, staff and students back together again. Our classrooms, buses, kitchens and offices just aren’t the same in the summer — people are what make our learning community so special. And it’s great to see everyone coming together again.
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The story of the Wyandot Constitution and establishing the present borders of Kansas reminded me of this 2012 story of the Wyandot people and their influence on this place we call Kansas.
Read moreOther than brief visits about our families at Kansas Press Association meetings, I didn’t know Joan Meyer well. Her husband, on the other hand, was a legend in the Kansas newspaper community. I first met him when I was a young reporter for the Salina Journal and stopped by his office in Marion to introduce myself.
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Last week, I attended a standing-room-only meeting to hear more about the 2024 Big Kansas Road Trip.
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In 1867 Ellsworth was the latest railroad boomtown as the Union Pacific Railway Company, Eastern Division, built the first railroad on the Kansas prairies. One thousand men were busy surveying, grading the roadbed and laying track on a line from Salina, Kan., to an isolated location west of Ellsworth.
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In the previous edition of “The Way West,” we visited dramatic days of framing of the Wyandotte Constitution, the document that serves today as the Constitution of the State of Kansas. During the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention, the official borders for the intended state needed to be identified.
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