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    Atchison is a city and county seat of Atchison County, Kansas, United States, along the Missouri River. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city...
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    Atchison County is a county located in the northeast portion of the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat and most populous city is Atchison. As of the...
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    free-staters during the "Bleeding Kansas" events that preceded admission of the state to the Union. Atchison was born to William Atchison and his wife in Frogtown...
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  • to a large portion of the Atchison Storage Facility, a 2,700,000-square-foot (25 ha) former limestone mine in Atchison, Kansas, formerly owned by the US...
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  • settlement Atchison, Kansas, a city Atchison County, Kansas Atchison County, Missouri Atchison (surname), a list of people with this surname Atchison, Topeka...
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    February 1859 to serve the cities of Atchison and Topeka, Kansas, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. The railroad reached the Kansas–Colorado border in 1873 and Pueblo...
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  • Sallie House (category Houses in Atchison County, Kansas)
    The Sallie House is located in Atchison, Kansas. Built in the mid-1800s, it is said to be haunted by the ghost of a young girl who died in the house while...
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    Amelia Earhart (category People from Atchison, Kansas)
    Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. Born and raised in Atchison, Kansas, Earhart developed a passion for adventure at a young age, steadily...
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  • Benedictine College is a private Benedictine liberal arts college in Atchison, Kansas, United States. It was established in 1971 by the merger of St. Benedict's...
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    Ferrellgas (category 1939 establishments in Kansas)
    L.P. is an American supplier of propane founded 84–85 years ago in Atchison, Kansas by A.C. Ferrell. The nationwide company is headquartered in Liberty...
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    C. I. Scofield (category People from Atchison, Kansas)
    before moving to Atchison, Kansas, in late 1869. In 1871, Scofield was elected to the Kansas House of Representatives, first from Atchison for one year and...
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  • MGP Ingredients (category 1941 establishments in Kansas)
    distilled spirits and food ingredients producer with headquarters in Atchison, Kansas, United States. MGP Ingredients' distilled spirits are sold under about...
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    John Cameron Swayze (category People from Atchison, Kansas)
    spokesman. Born in Wichita, Kansas, Swayze was the son of a wholesale drug salesman. He attended school in Atchison, Kansas, and at Culver Military Academy...
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    Rory Feek (category People from Atchison, Kansas)
    launching of new independent artists. Rory Lee Feek was born and raised in Atchison, Kansas. In his blog, ThisLifeILive.com, he gives his birth year as 1965. Feek...
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    Amelia Earhart Birthplace (category Museums in Atchison County, Kansas)
    of aviator Amelia Earhart. It is located at 223 N. Terrace St. in Atchison, Kansas, United States. The house was built in 1861 in a Gothic Revival style...
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  • college in Bellevue, Washington Benedictine College, a college in Atchison, Kansas Benedictine Military School, a high school in Savannah, Georgia Bergen...
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  • Overland Trail (category Historic trails and roads in Kansas)
    Lake City, Utah, via stagecoaches in the early 1860s. Starting from Atchison, Kansas, the trail descended into Colorado before looping back up to southern...
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    starting points, including Weston, Missouri, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Atchison, Kansas, St. Joseph, Missouri, and Omaha, Nebraska. The Oregon Trail's...
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    still unorganized. Douglas's efforts were stymied by Senator David Rice Atchison of Missouri and other Southern leaders who refused to allow the creation...
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    Muscotah is a city in Atchison County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 155. Muscotah was named after the...
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    Charles Lester Marlatt (category People from Atchison, Kansas)
    (1863–1954) was an American entomologist. Born in 1863 at Atchison, Kansas, he was educated at Kansas State Agricultural College (B.S., 1884; M.S., 1886),...
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    the age of 18, he came to the Kansas Territory, bought the newspaper known as the Squatter Sovereign, published at Atchison, and changed the name to Freedom's...
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    McInteer Villa (category National Register of Historic Places in Atchison County, Kansas)
    The McInteer Villa is a historic house in Atchison, Kansas. It was built in 1889-1890 for an Irish immigrant. It is listed on the National Register of...
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  • Atchison USD 409 is a public unified school district headquartered in Atchison, Kansas, United States. In 2021, the school board decided to change from...
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    study at Mount St. Scholastica College (now Benedictine College), in Atchison, Kansas, where she majored in biology, with minors in chemistry and German...
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  • unincorporated community in Atchison County, Kansas, United States. It is about 5 miles west and 5 miles north of Atchison. It lies at the present-day...
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  • feet (15 to 46 m) below the ground in the Missouri River bluffs at Atchison, Kansas. The bunker complex was a secure U.S. government storage facility from...
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    (Warrensburg is in Johnson County, Missouri. Atchison is in Atchison County, Kansas. Ottawa is in Franklin County, Kansas.) The combined statistical area covers...
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    David Rice Atchison, Benjamin Franklin Stringfellow, John H. Stringfellow, editor of the pro-slavery newspaper Squatter Sovereign (Atchison, Kansas), and Speaker...
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    E. W. Howe (category People from Atchison, Kansas)
    William E. (1918). A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans. Lewis. p. 1418. "Atchison County, Kansas Obituaries". Kansas Trails. Retrieved October 26, 2014...
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