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3 unusual facts about Strong City


Chase County Junior/Senior High School

In 2010, the middle school building was closed in Strong City and the middle school moved to the existing high school building in Cottonwood Falls, thus renaming it.

Strong City

Lord Our Righteousness Church, New Mexico, a religious community sometimes called Strong City, and the subject of the National Geographic documentary "Inside a Cult"

Strong City, Kansas

In 1881, the name was changed to Strong, in honor of William Barstow Strong, General Superintendent of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, whom later become the president of the company.


William Barstow Strong

The city of Barstow, California, where the ATSF maintained extensive shop and equipment construction and repair facilities, the town of Strong City, Kansas, and Stronghurst, Illinois are named in his honor.


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Peter Hill-Wood

Hill-Wood was a colleague of Chips Keswick at Hambros and subsequently saw him recruited to the Arsenal board to provide strong City contacts at a time when the club were financing their new stadium.

Phimai District

A stone pillar dating to the reign of King Suryavarman I was found, naming the city Bhirapura meaning strong city.