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unusual facts about Big Blue River


Read Township, Butler County, Nebraska

The Big Blue River flows throughout the Township and under a bridge on Miller Street in the Village of Surprise.


Joseph Denison

(See Bleeding Kansas.) Over the next several years Denison was part of a small group that settled and built the abolitionist town of Manhattan, Kansas, at the union of the Kansas River and the Big Blue River in the Flint Hills.


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Errett P. Scrivner

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress, largely due to his request for a vote for appropriations to continue construction on the controversial and wildly unpopular Tuttle Creek Dam along the Big Blue River.