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Kansas has so much more to offer than you expect. Check out our unique local retaurants, zoos, museums, waterfalls, attractions, events and historic buildings.

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@JerryQuickel Jerry, any chance of visiting your collection to post about it on https://t.co/hzAKyXPZxX

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@mackinacbridge Can't use the outside lane if you are headed south.

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The Chicken House restaurant is a second generation family restaurant in tiny Olpe, Kansas. The first restaurant at this location Cooper's Café which opened in 1934. Chicken fried steak sandwich with hand cut fries & house made onion rings. https://t.co/IEGGxybymc

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The USS Kansas (BB-21) was launched 115 years ago today, August 12, 1905. The battleship was the second US navy ship named for Kansas and was in service until 1921. #Kansas #HistoryMade

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We have added a new page devoted to the World's Largest Czech Egg in Wilson, Kansas. https://t.co/CrjiFbtoym

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This classic old postcard shows the Holiday Inn in Great Bend, Kansas.

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We found these Wild horses in the Flint Hills, east of Cassoday, Kansas. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) contracts with landowners & ranchers to provide pastures for thousands of wild mustangs which come from Western states. Prints of this photo: https://t.co/9kWI06B1se

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When the oldest (1857) restaurant in Kansas, Hays House Restaurant in Council Grove, closed in December, there was fear that it might be closed for good, but they reopened with new owners 3 weeks ago. We visited this weekend & updated the review: https://t.co/G61YbfLwei #Kansas

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216 years ago this week, June 26-29, 1804, the U.S. Army expedition led by Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark arrived in Kansas at the confluence of the Missouri & Kansas Rivers at what is today called Kaw Point. #KansasCity #Kansas #History

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Vernie's Hamburger House in Hays gets the highest marks for Covid precautions during our trip across Kansas. There were shields at the cashiers stations, sanitation stations, the condiments had been removed from the tables with individual packs available & tables were separted.

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The Prairie Ocean: Long Time, No Sea, a temporary exhibit created by Chuck Bonner & Ray Troll is at the Sternberg Museum in Hays until September 8. The exhibit highlights stories of the Bonner family, their family legacy as fossil hunters, and Kansas natural history. #fossils

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50 years ago today (June 17, 1970) I-70 was completed, 424 miles in length in Kansas. The first segment of Interstate highway completed in the United States was the segment of I-70 that opened west of Topeka on November 14, 1956. #Kansas

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The historic 95 year old Dutch windmill in Wamego, Kansas is looking good again. It suffered damage in a storm last August.

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Singer and actress, Hattie McDaniel was born in Wichita Kansas, 127 years ago today, June 10, 1893. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as "Mammy" in Gone with the Wind. #GoneWithTheWind

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Free Fishing Weekend - This Saturday and Sunday, June 6 & 7, no Kansas fishing license is needed. Residents and out-of-state visitors may enjoy fishing on any public waters. Other regulations remain in effect.

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Postcard of the United States prison in Leavenworth from about the same time as the establishing of the prison in 1903. #Kansas

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Cherry Creek Low Water Bridge near Oswego, Kansas. https://t.co/hoikrBk0dj #kansas
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Santa Fe (AT&SF) No. 1050 was built in March 1902 and was the first of the "Prairie" type steam locomotives and was operated until 1955. Today it can be found in Riverside Park in Independence, Kansas. #kansastravel #Kansas

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This 110 year old postcard showed Vinewood Park, which was north of the Shawnee Lake Dam in Topeka. It combined amusement rides, recreation and a dance hall which continued to be used long after the rides were moved away.

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50 years ago today (May 14, 1970), Johnny Cash performed at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary, Kansas State Penitentiary and Kansas Women’s Industrial Reformatory. The night before, they performed at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, MO.