As director of the Lawrence Convention and Visitors Bureau and the chair of the Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area planning committee, Ms. Billings has created an effective partnership between tourism and preservation. Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area is an initiative that enhances, preserves, and promotes the Territorial, Civil War, and civil rights stories of 29 …
Dr. Patricia J. O’Brien organized an extensive database of information about historic buildings in Manhattan. In 2008, she published “The Architects and Buildings of Manhattan, Kansas”.
The University of Kansas Campus Heritage Plan is viewed as the first step in building a new culture of stewardship of historic landscapes and buildings on campus. Funded by the Getty Foundation and completed in March, 2008, the plan is available at www.dcm.ju.edu/planning.
Dick Pankratz spent 34 years at the Kansas State Historical Society and was the agency’s first full-time staff person dedicated to the historic preservation program.
The Indian Village on Pawnee Fork is an archeological site that was the location of a Cheyenne camp during the winter of 1866-67. The village was the location of a confrontation between the Indians and the U.S. Army that had implications far beyond the Pawnee River Valley. Locating the Indian Village on Pawnee Fork took …
Hard Chief’s Village is a multicomponent archeological site near Topeka. The site’s major importance centers around its use as a Kansa (or “Kaw”) Indian village, occupied from 1830 to 1848. The village was established in 1830 by Hard Chief, with a least 50-100 earthlodges being built there to shelter a band of 500-600 people, making …
The City of Little River and the Coronado-Quivira Museum were the recipients of an Advocacy Award for their role in supporting excavations at archeological site 14RC410. In 2004, the City of Little River successfully applied for Community Development Block Grant funds in order to upgrade its sewage lagoon system. After a lagoon location immediately north …
Received an Advocacy Award for their efforts to preserve the Saline River Bridge located on US Highway 183 in north Ellis County. The Saline River Bridge was built in 1932 and is a seven-span reinforced concrete bridge with double ribbed open spandrel arches, one of the largest and finest examples of this bridge type in …
When the Ottawa Middle School was first condemned in May of 1996, a group of concerned citizens organized themselves in an attempt to prevent demolition of this local landmark. This group was formally organized as Friends of Historic Buildings in 1997. They sought legal council and the assistance of the Kansas State Historical Society. The …
The Leawood Historic Commission is the recipient of a Preservation Advocacy Award for their efforts to save the Oxford Schoolhouse. At one time there were over 100 one-room schoolhouses in Johnson County. The Oxford Schoolhouse was the last remaining remnant of a by-gone era in southern Johnson County. Following nine years of fundraising and tireless …
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