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Kansas International Movers
Kansas Self Storage

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 Welcome to Kansas

KANSAS

Capital City: Topeka 
Nicknames: Sunflower State, Jayhawk State, Breadbasket of America
Population, 2005 estimate 2,744,687 residents

State?s Flag: On a navy blue field is a sunflower, the state flower. Also, the state seal and the words "Kansas". In the picture of the state seal are thirty-four stars representing the order of statehood. Above the stars is the motto "To the Stars Through Difficulties". On the seal a sunrise overshadows a farmer plowing a field near his log cabin, a steamboat sailing the Kansas River, a wagon train heading west and Native Americans hunting bison.

Spanish explorer Francisco de Coronado, in 1541, is considered the first European to have traveled this region. Sieur de la Salle's extensive land claims for France (1682) included present-day Kansas. Ceded to Spain by France in 1763, the territory reverted to France in 1800 and was sold to the U.S. as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.

Lewis and Clark, Zebulon Pike, and Stephen H. Long explored the region between 1803 and 1819. The first permanent white settlements in Kansas were outposts ? Fort Leavenworth (1827), Fort Scott (1842), and Fort Riley (1853) ? established to protect travelers along the Santa Fe and Oregon Trails.

Today, wheat fields, oil-well derricks, herds of cattle, and grain-storage elevators are chief features of the Kansas landscape. A leading wheat-growing state, Kansas also raises corn, sorghum, oats, barley, soybeans, and potatoes. Kansas stands high in petroleum production and mines zinc, coal, salt, and lead. It is also the nation's leading producer of helium.

Wichita is one of the nation's leading aircraft-manufacturing centers, ranking first in production of private aircraft. Kansas City is an important transportation, milling, and meat-packing center.

Points of interest include the Kansas History Center at Topeka, the Eisenhower boyhood home and the Eisenhower Memorial Museum and Presidential Library at Abilene, John Brown's cabin at Osawatomie, re-created Front Street in Dodge City, Fort Larned (an important military post on the Santa Fe Trail), Fort Leavenworth, and Fort Riley.

Fun Facts:

• Dodge City is the windiest city in the United States.
• At one time it was against the law to serve ice cream on cherry pie in Kansas.
• There are more than 600 incorporated towns in the state.
• A hailstone weighing more than one and a half pounds once fell on Coffeyville.
• The world famous fast-food chain of Pizza Hut restaurants opened its first store in Wichita.
• Sumner County is known as The Wheat Capital of the World.

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