Home to more than 22,000 people, the ever-growing city of Coralville is on the northwest shoulder of Iowa City and the University of Iowa Campus. Coralville has come through a transformation in the last few years, constructing the Iowa River Landing district, which has an inviting mix of shopping, culture and entertainment. The Coral Ridge …
Five miles west of downtown Des Moines, Clive is a suburban city that formed in the late 19th century around a depot on the St. Louis – Des Moines Northern Railway. You can see this very building, dating back to 1882, at the Clive Historical Society’s campus, also preserving a caboose and general store. Clive …
Sitting on the southeast side of the Kansas City metro area, Olathe is the seat of Johnson County and has the fourth highest population in the state. Olathe is much more than a suburb, with a first-class arts scene, captivating attractions and sprawling parks that have lakes with marinas and beaches. The city has a …
In the southeast of the Kansas City metro area, Shawnee is an ever-growing suburban city with historic origins as the religious and political center of the Shawnee Indians. During the days of the westward expansion, branches of the Oregon, California and Santa Fe Trails ran through what is now Shawnee, while there was a ferry …
The capital city of Kansas has set the scene for some monumental events in the nation’s history. Top of the list has to be Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, which marked the death knell of “Separate but Equal”. This pivotal milestone in civil rights history is remembered by a National Historic Site at …
If you took a time machine back to 1990 Lenexa you’d find a lot of open fields where there are now dynamic city streets and residential neighborhoods. Lenexa’s population has almost doubled in that time, and places like The District testify to the city’s sense of momentum. Here, the Lenexa Public Market has become a …
Nicknamed the Little Apple, Manhattan is home to Kansas State University, which dates back to 1863 and was founded by the same free-staters who founded the city. The university and city are intrinsically connected, and nowhere sums this up better than Aggieville, a fun-loving district that took shape at the turn of the 20th century. …
A center for trade at the intersection of the I-70 and I-135 in Central Kansas, the city of Salina is in the middle of one of the largest wheat-growing areas in the world. Downtown Salina has the dynamism of a big city, with a top-notch history museum, a regional performance venue and award-winning community arts …
The story of this city in central Kansas begins in 1887 when one of the world’s largest salt deposits was discovered close to the Arkansas River. That immense seam was formed in the Permian Period, 275 million years ago when Hutchinson was at the bottom of the sea. Salt made fortunes for humble folk like …
An endearing college town, Lawrence is the home of the University of Kansas (KU), founded in 1865. The city is one of the state’s big tourist spots, adored for its historical preservation, cosmopolitan main street and a young joie de vivre KU is also on the map for its prodigious Jayhawks, especially the men’s basketball …