Mix of Fact and Trivia – Enjoy
When you are ready for a Kansas vaction or are just travelling through and want to know something about the state to quiz the kids in the car you will get a full supply of help from this information.
- A grain elevator in Hutchinson is 1/2 mile long and holds 46 million bushels in its 1,000 bins.
At Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine waterbeds for horses are used in surgery.
Dodge City is the windiest city in the United States. Wow, beats our Chicago!
At one time it was against the law to serve ice cream on cherry pie in Kansas.
The first woman mayor in the United States was Susan Madora Salter. She was elected to office in Argonia in 1887.
The Long Branch Saloon really did exist in Dodge City, Kansas.
Established in 1827, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas is the oldest military post in continuous operation west of the Mississippi.
Kansas State Game rules prohibits the use of mules to hunt ducks.
It is illegal to shoot rabbits from a motorboat in the State of Kansas.
In 1901, Governor William Stanley declared, "We cannot afford to have the state made a dumping ground for the dependent children of other states, especially New York." This statement was made in response to the Orphan Trains movement, which spanned the turn of the century and brought hundred of orphans to the State of Kansas.
In Salina it is against the law to leave your car running unattended.
The first black woman to win an Academy Award was Kansan Hattie McDaniel. She won the award for her role in "Gone with the Wind."
William Purvis and Charles Wilson of Goodland, Kansas invented the helicopter in 1909
Smith County is the geographical center of the 48 contiguous states.
Musical car horns are banned in Russell, Kansas.
Amelia Earhart, first woman granted a pilot’s license by the National Aeronautics Associate and first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean was from Atchison.
The Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop in Olathe, was the first eating station for westbound passengers on the Santa Fe Trail in 1863.
Sumner County is known as The Wheat Capital of the World.
In Dodge City it is illegal to spit on a sidewalk.
The public swimming pool at the Lee Richardson Zoo in Garden City occupies half a city block and holds 2 1/2 million gallons of water.
Handel’s Messiah has been presented in Lindsborgeach at Easter since 1889.
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.
All places of business in Dodge City are required to provide a horse water troft.
The Hollenberg Station, 2 miles northeast of Hanover, Kansas, is the only original Pony Express Station still standing in its original location. It is now a museum.
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.
Fire Station No. 4 in Lawrence, originally a stone barn constructed in 1858, was a station site on the Underground Railroad.
The Hugoton Gas Field is the largest natural gas field in the United States. It underlies all or parts of 10 southwestern Kansas counties as well as parts of Oklahoma and Texas. The gas field underlies almost 8,500 square miles, an area nearly 5 times as large as the state of Rhode Island.
Kansas has the largest population of prairie chickens wild grouse in North America.
A 30 foot tall statue of Johnny Kaw stands in the Manhattan City Park. The statue represents the importance of the Kansas wheat farmer.
Kansas law requires that if two trains meet on the same track in Kansas, neither shall proceed until the other has passed.
Russell Springs located in Logan County is known as the Cow Chip Capital of Kansas.
The world famous fast-food chain of Pizza Hut restaurants opened its first store in Wichita.
All cars entering the Lawrence city limits must first sound their horn to warn the horses of their arrival.
Topeka, Kansas was the scene of many a gun battle, but the most bizarre incident occurred in the Kansas House of Representatives where Boston Corbett, the reported killer of John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln’s assassin, ran amuck. Corbett threatened to kill several state congressmen for stalling legislation; he finally surrendered his weapon without shooting anyone and was sent to an insane asylum.
Catching fish with your bare hands in Kansas is illegal.
The world’s largest hand dug well is in Greensburg, Kansas.
Kansas was the first state to ratify the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which gave African-American men the right to vote.
On August 21, 1863, William Clark Quantrill and his band of ruthless raiders attacked Lawrence, Kansas in the ongoing Kansas/Missouri Border War the began six years before the start of the Civil War. Burning Lawrence to the ground and killing more than 180 men and boys, the men fled at the sound of approaching Union troops. Frank and Jesse James learned their methods of gunmanship and murder under the command of William Quantrill.
The first national hamburger chain started in Kansas when Walter Anderson opened the first White Castle hamburger restaurant in Wichita in 1921. You can still eat slyders – in Chicago, New York, or St. Louis.
Elizabeth Taylor was born in Arkansas City, Kansas.
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