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Towanda, Butler County, Kansas Most people, driving the I-35 Kansas Turnpike from Wichita to Emporia, think that Towanda is just a rest s...

ATSF Handbook Go to Kansas Memories to read online a Useful Handbook for Immigrants and Settlers who wish to settle on lands belongin...

The 1825 Kaw Indian Peace Treaty You have to get off modern I-135 between Wichita and Salina and take Old Highwa...

Tobie on a dirt road east of Leon Kansas Sometimes the Kansas explorer has to take pleasure in simple things. For example, I came ac...

The town of Lebo lies alongside Interstate 35, east of Emporia. The town was named after Lebo Creek where Joe Lebo lived. He had been a Capt...

Skelly gas station at Lebo on old highway 50 The fastest way from Emporia to Overland Park is along Interstate 35, that winds throug...

In 1869, a middle-aged Frenchman from Bordeaux by the name of Ernest Valeton de Boissière (1811-1894) purchased 3500 acres of prairie in Fra...