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Originally a rail station called Tiblow, Bonner Springs (pop. 6,768) was renamed in the 1880s to honor New York editor and horseman Robert Bonner.

first appeared: 3/10/2002

At 35,300 acres, the Z Bar near Coldwater (pop. 792) was the state’s largest ranch until 1999, when it was bought by media mogul Ted Turner. He then merged it with three nearby ranches to form a 60,000-acre buffalo ranch.

first appeared: 3/3/2002

The state’s largest stone arch bridge is in the now-abandoned town of Clements, about 14 miles southwest of Cottonwood Falls (pop. 966). The 127-foot-long bridge was built in 1888.

first appeared: 2/24/2002

The state’s four fish hatcheries produce about 3.5 million fingerlings and 385,000 intermediate-size fish for stocking in the state’s public waters annually.

first appeared: 2/17/2002

The official state song, Home on the Range, was adapted from a poem written by Ohio native Dr. Brewster Higley in the 1870s.

first appeared: 2/10/2002

Built in 1862, the Beecher Bible and Rifle Church in Wabaunsee gets its name from abolitionist minister Henry Ward Beecher, who sent rifles in boxes marked “Bibles” with the town’s first settlers on their journey from Connecticut.

first appeared: 2/3/2002

Mount Sunflower in Wallace County is the highest point in the state—4,039 feet above sea level.

first appeared: 1/27/2002

Organized in 1863, the Kansas Press Association in Topeka is among the nation’s oldest newspaper associations. Its membership includes 50 daily and more than 180 weekly newspapers.

first appeared: 1/20/2002

License plates issued between 1951 and 1955 were in the shape of the state, which is rectangular except for a “missing” northeast corner formed by the Missouri River.

first appeared: 1/13/2002

Built in 1857, the Mahaffie Farmstead in Olathe is the only remaining Santa Fe Trail stagecoach station open to the public.

first appeared: 1/6/2002

In 2000, Kendra Wecker of Marysville High School in Marysville (pop. 3,271) amassed 661 kills, setting the state record for kills in one season in volleyball. In volleyball, a kill is an attack that results in a point or earns the player’s team the right to serve.

first appeared: 12/30/2001

The first formal world championship game of horseshoes occurred in 1909 at Bronson (pop. 346). Stakes were 2 inches high, and Frank Jackson of Blue Mound (pop. 277) won the championship belt and $2.50 grand prize.

first appeared: 12/23/2001

Completed in 1873, the Chase County Courthouse in Cottonwood Falls (pop. 966) is the oldest courthouse in use in Kansas.

first appeared: 12/16/2001

One of the first settlers in Oakley (pop. 2,173), pharmacist C.A. Fick was also the first person to have a phone in the city: a wire connecting tin cans in his home and business.

first appeared: 12/9/2001

In 1958, brothers Frank and Dan Carney borrowed $600 from their mother to purchase some used equipment and open the first Pizza Hut in Wichita. The company now has 10,286 restaurants worldwide that use more than 700 million pounds of pepperoni annually.

first appeared: 12/2/2001

Born in Wamego (pop. 4,246) in 1875, Walter Chrysler became president of the Willys-Overland and Maxwell Motor Co., which in 1925 became the company that bears his name.

first appeared: 11/25/2001

Coffeyville (pop. 11,021) is named after James A. Coffey, the first settler in Montgomery County.

first appeared: 11/18/2001

Born in North Topeka on Jan. 25, 1860, Charles Curtis served as the nation’s 31st vice president from 1929-33 under Herbert Hoover and remains the highest ranking official with American Indian blood.

first appeared: 11/11/2001

The American Institute of Baking in Manhattan was founded in 1919 “to put science to work for the baker,” which still is the nonprofit organization’s basic mission.

first appeared: 11/4/2001

A replica of the first helicopter patented in the United States, made in 1909 by W.J. Purvis and C.A. Wilson of Goodland (pop. 4,948), is at Goodland’s High Plains Museum.

first appeared: 10/28/2001

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