| Indian Hills Elementary is located on the outskirts of Topeka, the capital city of Kansas. Topeka is located in northeast Kansas and is home to about 122,000 people. Use the links below to learn about our great city. | ||||
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Topeka,
A Place We Are Proud to Call Home (from
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| Topeka is the home of the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site commemorating the 1954 Supreme Court decision that ended segregation in public schools. | ||||
| Topeka became the state capital in 1861. | ||||
| Cyrus K. Holliday helped found Topeka and establish the headquarters for the Santa Fe Railway here, now Burlington Northern Santa Fe. He was also the city's first mayor. | ||||
| Topeka's Reinisch Rose Garden, located in Gage Park, is one of the largest in the midwest. It has more than 350 varieties of roses and over 7,000 individual rose bushes. | ||||
| Alf Landon, the 1936 Republican nominee for president, called Topeka home. | ||||
| Topeka's Washburn University is the only municipally owned university in the country. | ||||
| Sources:
The Greater Topeka Chamber of Commerce http://www.topekachamber.org Worldbook Online Reference Center http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Home |
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