Below is a list of Kansas landmarks. This list includes various landmarks in the state of Kansas.
- The John Brown museum is located in Osawatomie.
- The boyhood home of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Eisenhower Library, and his grave are located in Abilene.
- Abilene is the ending point of the Chisholm Trail where the cattle driven from Texas were loaded onto rail cars.
- The house of Carrie Nation, now a museum, is located in Medicine Lodge.
- Constitution Hall in Lecompton is the location where the Kansas Territorial Government convened and drafted a pro-slavery constitution. [1]
- The Wizard of Oz Museum in Wamego features Dorothy's House, a recreation of the farm house featured in the film The Wizard of Oz.
- The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, located in Hutchinson, is affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution. The museum features the largest collection of artifacts from the Russian Space Program outside of Moscow. It is also home to Apollo 13, an SR-71 Blackbird, and many space artifacts.
- The award-winning Kansas Museum of History [2] is the state museum, and is located in the capital city of Topeka.
- The world's largest ball of twine (disputed), created August 15, 1953, in Cawker City.
- The Greyhound Hall of Fame [3] is also located in Abilene.
- The Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant in De Soto opened in 1942 to manufacture gunpowder and munitions propellants for World War II. The closed plant sits on over 9000 acres (36 km²) of land which was made up of more than 100 farms.
- The Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics houses the largest collection of papers for a politician other than a president. The institute is located in Lawrence, on the campus of the University of Kansas. [4]
- The Boot-Lip Hill Museum in Dodge City features Old West memorabilia and history.
- The National Teachers Hall of Fame [5] is located in Emporia.
- The National Agricultural Center and Hall of Fame is located in Bonner Springs.
- The Horace Greeley museum is located in Tribune.
- The Boyer Gallery, a collection of animated sculptures made by Paul Boyer is located in Belleville.
- The fifth largest collection of civilian and military aircraft in the United States is located at the Mid-America Air Museum in Liberal.
- The Big Well, the world's largest hand dug well, is in Greensburg.
- The Sternberg Museum of Natural History [6] in Hays, features exhibits of several fossils discovered by Charles Hazelius Sternberg as well as various temporary exhibits. [6]
- Big Basin and Little Basin are two large sinkholes located in Clark County.
- Arikaree Breaks are badlands located in Cheyenne County, Kansas.
- The Cimarron National Grassland, Kansas's largest tract of public land, is located in Morton County.
- Monument Rocks is a series of chalk arcs and other formations. Kansas also has many other formations of this nature.
- The chalk formation Castle Rock (Kansas) and nearby badlands, near Quinter, Kansas.
- The boyhood home of General Frederick Funston is located in Iola. [7]
- A replica of Norman Number 1 (supposedly the first oil derrick west of the Mississippi River) and a small museum dedicated to it are located near the chamber of commerce building in Neodesha (located in the eastern end of the town, just before its Main Street merges with U.S. 75). The original derrick and museum were located on Mill Street, but were abandoned shortly before erosion caused the derrick to collapse into the Verdigris River.
- The Dalton Defenders Museum, located in Coffeyville, commemorates the townspeople who died defending the town against the Dalton Gang, who unsuccessfully attempted to rob two Coffeyville banks simultaneously on October 5, 1892.
- Concordia is home of the historic Brown Grand Theatre and Camp Concordia, a World War II Prisoner of war camp.
- Big Brutus, the largest electric strip mining shovel still in existence. On display in West Mineral, Kansas.
See also
References
- ^ Historic Lecompton - Constitution Hall State Historic Site. Retrieved on 13 April 2007.
- ^ Kansas Historical Society
- ^ Greyhound Hall of Fame
- ^ Rober J. Dole Institute of Politics. Retrieved on 13 April 2007.
- ^ The National Teachers Hall of Fame - Quick Facts. Retrieved on 13 April 2007.
- ^ a b Sternberg Museum of Natural History
- ^ Boyhood Home & Museum of Major General Frederick Funston
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