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Salina's Historic Downtown

Author : Mary Clement Douglass

Publisher : Arcadia Publishing

Page : 130 pages

File Size : 14,55 MB

Release : 2013

Category : History

ISBN : 1467110035

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Salina got its name from the Saline River that flows north of town. Its founders were a close-knit group of Scotsmen related by blood or marriage; most came to America from southwestern Scotland between 1839 and 1854 and settled in Randolph County, Illinois. Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune sent correspondent William A. Philips from Randolph County to Lawrence, Kansas, to cover the turmoil caused by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 and the doctrine of popular sovereignty. The residents of Kansas were to choose whether the territory would come into the Union as a slaveholding or free-soil state. To affect that outcome, both Southerners and Northern abolitionists sent colonies of settlers to Kansas Territory. Out of this conflict was born the Salina Town Company. William A. Philips, his brother David, his sister Christina, and his brothers-in-law Alexander C. Spilman and Alexander M. Campbell, along with close friend James Muir, preempted a 320-acre town site in north central Kansas in 1858. From humble beginnings grew the largest commercial center in the area: Salina.













Cities on the Plains

Author : James R. Shortridge

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Page : 504 pages

File Size : 38,26 MB

Release : 2004

Category : History

ISBN :

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"Drawing on rich historical research filtered through cultural geography, Shortridge looks at the 118 communities that ever achieved a population of 2,500 and unravels the many factors that influenced the growth of urban Kansas. He tells how mercantilism dominated urban thinking in territorial days until after statehood, when cities competed for the capital, prisons, universities, and other institutions. He also shows how geography and size were employed by entrepreneurs and government officials to prepare strategies for economic development. And he describes how the railroads especially promoted the founding of cities in the nineteenth century - and how this system has fared since 1950 in the face of globalization and the growth of interstate highways."--BOOK JACKET.



Kansas, a Pictorial History

Author : Robert W. Richmond

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Page : 296 pages

File Size : 19,3 MB

Release : 1992

Category : History

ISBN :

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Pictorial history of Kansas with more than 650 photographs, drawings, and paintings.



Hidden History of Kansas

Author : Adrian Zink

Publisher : Arcadia Publishing

Page : 192 pages

File Size : 44,92 MB

Release : 2017

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1625858892

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Kansas History

Author : Homer E. Socolofsky

Publisher : Greenwood

Page : 630 pages

File Size : 29,90 MB

Release : 1992-04-20

Category : History

ISBN :

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The first volume in the series State Bibliographies, this book provides comprehensive coverage of secondary materials on Kansas history and also includes useful references to major archival and manuscript collections. Although excellent specialized bibliographies have been published, this volume is the most complete compilation of historical and related materials for the state. Its broad and diverse scope ranges from standard political and economic studies to social and environmental histories, to local studies, and to regional studies with special significance to the state. The volume is divided into sections on prehistory; indigenous population; early exploration; territorial period; statehood; Kansas since 1898; agriculture; economic life; transportation; cultural life; education; science and medicine; social history; general histories and reference guides; local and county history; historiography materials; and historic sites. Entries include informative annotations designed to aid the novice and the scholar. The volume is thoroughly indexed by author and subject and includes the only existing index for all the major articles appearing over the past 125 years in the Kansas State Historical Society's major publications.