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150 Places to Celebrate Kansas’s 150th Birthday

by | Feb 13, 2011 | Travel & Preservation

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There’s no place like Kansas. We’re talking about the Central/ Sunflower/Wheat/Jayhawk State. This state has more nicknames than Bob Boze Bell (but you can’t print what folks call BBB). After a fight over free- or slave-state status (thus another moniker, “Bleeding Kansas”), the free-state Wyandotte Constitution was ratified in 1859, and on January 29, 1861, Kansas entered the Union as the 34th state. Rock Chalk, Jayhawk! (What does KU’s cheer mean, anyway?) I’m off to find 150


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