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Dodge City
is the windiest city in the United States, with an average wind speed of
14 miles per hour.
Goodland,
Kansas
proudly boasts the world's largest easel. Sitting atop the 80 foot,
40,000 pound steel easel, is a giant replica of Vincent Van Gough's
Sunflower painting.
Any person convicted of
using or carrying bean snappers in Wichita will be fined.
At one time it was
against the law to serve ice cream on cherry pie in
Kansas.
Sumner County is known as The Wheat Capital of the World.
The term "red light
district" came from the Red Light Bordello in
Dodge City,
Kansas.
The front door of the building was made of red glass and produced a red
glow to the outside world when lit at night. The name carried over to
refer to the town's brothel district.
In
Dodge City
it is illegal to spit on a sidewalk.
Almon Stowger of El Dorado invented the dial telephone in 1889.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, the
34th President of the United States, was from Abilene.
Riding an animal down the
road is against the law in Derby,
Kansas.
Lucas,
Kansas,
a tiny town of less than 500 residents, is the officially designated
“Grassroots Art Capital of
Kansas,”
due to its numerous artistic displays.
Hutchinson is nicknamed
the Salt City because it was built above some of the richest salt deposits
in the world. Salt is still actively mined, processed and shipped from
Hutchinson.
There are 27 Walnut
Creeks in the state of
Kansas.
If you’re going to cross
a highway at night in
Kansas,
you are required to wear tail lights.
Amelia Earhart, the first
woman granted a pilot's license by the National Aeronautics Associate and
the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, was from
Atchison.
All places of business in
Dodge City
are required to provide a horse water troft.
The three largest herds
of buffalo
in
Kansas
are located on public lands at the Maxwell Game Preserve in McPherson, the
Big Basin in Ashland, and the Buffalo Game Preserve in Garden City.
Fort Riley
was the cradle of the United States Cavalry for 83 years.
George Armstrong Custer formed the famed 7th Cavalry there in 1866.
Ten years later, at the
Battle of
the Little Big Horn, the 7th was virtually wiped out. The only Cavalry
survivor was a horse named Comanche, whose stuffed body is on display at
the University of
Kansas
Natural History Museum in
Lawrence.
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