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Advance Rumely Building

Built 1916

Built For Commercial & Manufacturing

(Second of 3 Buildings)

Original Spelling Rumely

Changed in the 1930's to Rumley

Historic Address: 239 N. Rock Island

Current Address: 238 N. Mead

Marker is on Mead Street near 2nd Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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St. Norbert College and The Packers

Packers Heritage Trail

St. Norbert College became the training camp of the Packers in 1958 in an agreement that would become the longest such partnership in NFL history. Father Dennis M. Burke, then president of the college, suggested the arrangement ...

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Coleman Lamp and Stove Building

Built 1945 - 1950

Built For Shear Department

Historic Address: 233 Moore Avenue

Current Address: 213 N. Mead

Marker is on Mead Street near 2nd Street, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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99 Words and Phrases Coined by Shakespeare

Wichita Art Museum Trail Walk Path

Truth Will Out • Salad Days •Send Packing • Knock Knock! Who's There? • What The Dickens • Wear My Heart Upon My Sleeve • Bated Breath • The Game Is Up • Love ...

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Lehmann-Higginson Wholesale Grocery Building

Built 1912

Built as free-standing wholesale

grocery warehouse for $70,000

Architect: Fred G. McCune,

Wichita, Kansas

Renovated: 1998 as Office

Historic & Current Address:

800 East First

Marker is at the intersection of 1st Street and Mead Street, on the left when traveling east on 1st Street.

Courtesy ...

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Home Place of Capt. Wm. Moore

Here on land granted him in 1787.

He erected the first house of white

settlers west of the Blue Ridge.

Capt. Moore and his troops camped near

here when on the Rutherford Expedition

against the Cherokee in 1776.

Erected by Unaka Chapter

Daughters of American Colonists.

Marker is ...

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Myra Warren McHenry

People of Kansas Trail Walk Path

"I like Wichita because there is so much

corruption that it keeps me busy."

Temperance crusader,

Myra Warren McHenry

For more information on other interesting

people in Wichita history visit

www.oldcowtown.org

Marker is on 1st Street near Emporia Avenue, on the right ...

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John Mack Bridge

Built by State Highway Comm. of Kansas

Named in honor of John C. Mack

State Highway Commissioner of

the Fifth District at the time

of its authorization

State Highway Commission of Kansas

Arkansas River Bridge

U.S. Highway 81.

Tomlinson Bridge & Supply Co.

Garfield Kansas

Contractors

B. J. Berson

Resident Engineer

1931

John Mack ...

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National Historic Landmark - Kolomoki Mounds State Park

Memorializing Prehistoric Georgia Civilization

A large Indian mound complex built about A.D. 200-600 is the centerpiece of Kolomoki Mounds State Park. The largest mound is 325 feet long, 200 feet wide and 57 feet high. This ceremonial area was at the ...

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John Cheney on Wichita State Basketball

Sports Trail Walk Path

"We've played in tougher places. At Wichita State, those fans would stand up and clap at the beginning of each half, and until their team scores, they don't sit down. We had 'em clapping for four minutes ...

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