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2 unusual facts about Kansas River


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.

Sullivan Line

In 1816, surveyor John C. Sullivan was instructed to survey the Osage territory starting 20 WEST of Fort Clark at the confluence of the Kansas River and Missouri River.


David William Hutchison

During his time in command of the 21st Division, which at the time was based at Forbes Air Force Base in Shawnee County, Kansas, he received a letter of commendation from Governor Edward F. Arn for relief efforts during flooding from the Kansas River in 1951.

Highway 2 Bridge

The Highway 2 Bridge is an automobile and pedestrian crossing of the Kansas River on the border of Johnson and Leavenworth Counties in De Soto.

Pedro Vial

Near the Arkansas River in Kansas, Vial encountered a party of Kaw Indians who took him and his companions captive, threatened to kill them, and took them to their village on the Kansas River.

Samuel Hallett

As a result, Talcott was physically assaulted by one of Hallett's brothers in Wyandotte, Kansas (across the Kansas River from Kansas City, Kansas).


see also

Delaware Crossing

Grinter Place, a house on the US National Register of Historic Places above the Kansas River in the Muncie neighborhood of Kansas City, Kansas.

Lewis and Clark Bridge

Intercity Viaduct, also named officially the Lewis and Clark Viaduct since 1969, spanning the Kansas River