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Topeka, Kansas. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Shawnee. Associated ZIP codes: 66601, 66603, 66604, 66605, 66606, 66607, 66608, 66609, 66610, 66611, 66612, 66614, 66615, 66616, 66617, 66618, 66619, 66620, 66621, 66622, 66624, 66625, 66626, 66629, 66630, 66636, 66647, 66667, 66675, 66683, 66699.
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Topeka, Kansas has announced a new relocation incentive program where eligible folks who pack up and head to the Midwest can score up to $15,000 in cold, har...
TOPEKA, Kan. – The Kansas Democratic Party will be in 7 locations across Kansas over two days the weekend of October 24th and 25th. The tour
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BY TIM CARPENTERKansas Reflector TOPEKA — A U.S. District Court judge issued an order forbidding enforcement of a bipartisan Kansas law adopted in 2004 tha...
Victim lifted from the railroad tracks-Image from the Topeka Fire Department video
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Nancy Kassebaum Baker, a Kansas governor’s daughter who became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate without following a spouse...
TOPEKA — Charter Communications finalized its $34.5 billion deal to acquire Cox Communications on Thursday, and Kansans will soon see their Cox products ma...
TOPEKA — Evergy filed a request with utility regulators to ensure its confidential data wasn’t uploaded to artificial intelligence platforms, highlightin...
TOPEKA — The Kansas State Board of Education is pushing ahead with drafting recommendations for public school districts on use of technology in classrooms...
TOPEKA – Kansas Tourism has announced that applications for the Attraction Development grants program will open Aug. 17. The program is designed to provide...
TOPEKA – The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) and the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP) have issued a public health advisory...
TOPEKA, Kan. — Phyllis Zorn, the reporter whose acts of journalism served as an excuse for the August 2023 police raid of the Marion County Record, will ge...
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Topeka is in Shawnee County, Kansas.
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Topeka is a Kansa-Osage word meaning "place where we dig potatoes" or "a good place to dig potatoes." It was first recorded in 1826 as the Kansa name for the Kansas River, and the founders chose it in 1855 because it was "novel, of Indian origin, and euphonious of sound." Joseph James, called Jojim, a man of mixed Kansa heritage, is credited with suggesting it.
In the 1840s, as wagon trains headed west on the Oregon Trail, three sisters of part Kansa descent who were married to the French-Canadian Pappan brothers ran a ferry across the Kansas River at what became Topeka. In the early 1850s a new military road from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Riley passed through. In 1854, after the first cabin was built, nine men formed the Topeka Town Association. Among them was Cyrus K. Holliday, who became mayor and founded the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. Steamboats soon docked at the Topeka landing with meat, lumber and flour and took back potatoes, corn and wheat. Topeka was one of the towns founded by Eastern antislavery men right after the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and it was a free-state stronghold against the proslavery territorial government at Lecompton. After Southern forces blockaded the town in 1856, its leaders organized a militia and built stone fortifications on Quincy Street. Topeka was chartered as a city in 1857. It is known for Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the Supreme Court case that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and declared segregated public schools unconstitutional. Sources Wikipedia: Topeka, Kansas
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