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Kansas is known for:
- Oil wells
- Wizard of Oz
- Wheat
- Great plains
- Scorching summers and freezing winters
Popular Tourist Attractions
Popular Tourist Attractions
- Big Brutus: Museum in West Mineral, Kansas.
- Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site: Historic site consisting of a school and adjacent grounds that commemorates the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision aimed at ending racial segregation in public schools, located in Topeka, Kansas.
- Cosmosphere: Space museum in Hutchinson, Kansas.
- Eisenhower Presidential Museum : Museum in Abilene, Kansas.
- Exploration Place: Science museum in Wichita, Kansas.
- Kansas Aviation Museum: Aviation museum in Wichita, Kansas.
- Kansas Speedway: Car racing track in Kansas City, Kansas.
- Museum of World Treasures: World history museum in Wichita, Kansas.
- Old Cowtown Museum: History museum in Wichita, Kansas.
- Overland Park Arboretum: Park in Overland Park, Kansas.
- Rolling Hills Zoo: Zoo in Salina, Kansas.
- Sedgwick County Zoo: Zoo in Wichita, Kansas.
- Sunset Zoo: Zoo in Manhattan, Kansas.
- Tanganyika Wildlife Park: Zoo in Goddard, Kansas.
- The Keeper of the Plains: Steel sculpture by Blackbear Bosin, located in Wichita, Kansas.
- Wichita Art Museum: Art museum in Wichita, Kansas.
Popular Iconic Kansas Foods That Require Clean Water
Kansas is famous for the following foods:
BBQ
Fried Chicken
Bierocks
Burnt Ends
Sour cream and raisin pie
The Z-Man
Fun Facts
- The state of Kansas was named after Kansa, an Indian tribe that lived in the region about 12,000 years ago. The Kansa people were called Kansas and that became the name of the state.
- The geographic center of the 48 contiguous United States is located about 2.6 miles northwest of the center of Lebanon, Kansas.
- Because of its importance in the aircraft industry, Wichita is known as “the Air Capital of the World.”
- In 1958, the first Pizza Hut restaurant was opened in Wichita, Kansas.
- The first woman mayor in the United States was Susan Madora Salter, who was elected to office in Argonia, Kansas in 1887.
- Kansas State Game rules prohibits the use of mules to hunt ducks.
- DeBruce Grain Elevator in Haysville, Kansas is the largest grain elevator in the world. It is 2,717 feet long.
- Walt Disney opened his first animation studio in Kansas City. Supposedly he fed a small mouse in the building, which he later said was his inspiration for Mickey Mouse.
This page was last updated on July 31, 2022.
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