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Too many Halloween pranks in 1918 in Independence (pop. 9,846) inspired what has become the state’s largest festival, Neewollah (that’s Halloween spelled backward), with one full week of parades, carnival, and musical events.

first appeared: 9/21/2003

The Kansas Aviation Museum is housed in the original Wichita Municipal Airport administration building, designed in 1929 art deco style.

first appeared: 9/14/2003

Founded in 1906 in Alfred Fuller’s suitcase, the Fuller Brush Co. has grown to a 12-acre manufacturing plant in Great Bend (pop. 15,345) and the company now sells more than 2,000 products.

first appeared: 9/7/2003

When students at Bluestem High School discovered that a town history book about Leon (pop. 645) had never been written, they interviewed residents, researched, and wrote the 99-page, The History of Leon, 1860-2003.

first appeared: 8/31/2003

In 1855, Grasshopper Falls was platted beside the Grasshopper River, but after multiple grasshopper plagues, the town changed its name in 1875 to Valley Falls (pop. 1,254).

first appeared: 8/24/2003

Known for its “fastest half-mile dirt track in the world,” the Belleville (pop. 2,239) High Banks is home to one of the biggest midget national car races each August.

first appeared: 8/17/2003

Eva Jessye, a pioneering African-American musician, served as choral director for George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess in 1935. She was born in 1895 in Coffeyville (pop. 11,021).

first appeared: 8/10/2003

In 1957, Protection (pop. 558) starred in a national campaign as the first U.S. city protected against polio by having all residents inoculated with the polio vaccine.

first appeared: 8/3/2003

Brent Dellinger, 15, of Salina (pop. 45,679) won the 2002 National Yo-Yo Contest last October in Chico, Calif.

first appeared: 7/27/2003

Sterling College in Sterling (pop. 2,642) offers the nation’s only undergraduate degree in social entrepreneurship, which prepares students to apply business principles to non-profit ventures.

first appeared: 7/20/2003

The first lighted night game in organized baseball was played April 28, 1930, at Shulthis Stadium in Independence (pop. 9,846).

first appeared: 7/13/2003

Built in 1857, the Indian Pay Station in St. Marys (pop. 2,198) is the oldest building in Pottawatomie County (pop. 18,209). The government and Pottawatomie Indians conducted business here.

first appeared: 7/6/2003

Marked in 1901 by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, the geodetic center of the United States lies in a field in Osborne County (pop. 4,452). This reference point for mapmakers and surveyors takes into consideration the curvature of the Earth.

first appeared: 6/29/2003

A relic from the cattle-drive era, a pair of horns from a longhorn steer, spanning 7 feet, 2 inches, graces the lobby of the 1881 Stock Exchange Bank in Caldwell (pop. 1,284).

first appeared: 6/22/2003

With 163 miles of shoreline, Milford Lake near Junction City (pop. 18,886) is the state’s largest manmade lake.

first appeared: 6/15/2003

The Kingman (pop. 3,387) Cattleman’s Rodeo has been held since 1899, the state’s oldest rodeo.

first appeared: 6/8/2003

In 1909, the state passed the first law abolishing the common drinking cup or tin dipper in public places.

first appeared: 6/1/2003

Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered the planet Pluto in 1930, explored the heavens from his boyhood home in Burdett (pop. 256). He was born in 1906 in Streator, Ill. (pop. 14,190).

first appeared: 5/25/2003

Cockroaches, flies, and other bugs inhabit a replica of a home kitchen—under glass, thank you—at an insect zoo that opened in October 2002 at Kansas State University in Manhattan (pop. 44,831).

first appeared: 5/18/2003

Some 200 natural sandstone rock formations adorn the landscape at Rock City near Minneapolis (pop. 2,046).

first appeared: 5/11/2003

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