The world famous fast-food chain of Pizza Hut restaurants opened its first store in Wichita.
A hailstone weighing more than one and a half pounds once fell on Coffeyville.
A monument to the first Christian martyr on United States Territory stands along Highway 56 near Lyons. Father Juan de Padilla came to the region with the explorer Coronado in 1541.
The Arkansas River may be the only river whose pronunciation changes as it crosses state lines. In Kansas, it is called the Arkansas (ahr-KAN-zuhs). On both sides of Kansas (Colorado and Oklahoma), it is called the Arkansaw.
Fire Station No. 4 in Lawrence, originally a stone barn constructed in 1858, was a station site on the Underground Railroad.
Kansas has the largest population of wild grouse in North America. The grouse is commonly called the prairie chicken.
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.
Keep up the good work Kansas!
5 comments:
The prairie chickens know things.
Sue
Ah ahh Kan-sas!
Sooo...what exactly prompted you to write this? Somebody dissin' on my home state again? Err what?
Well actually, I went to the Chamber breakfast yesterday morning and the honey and ice scraper thing was a part of the presentation. It was a presenation about manufacturing and the importance and benefits of keeping it in the US and local communities. I just found the others online. No dissin'. Purely pride.
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