Bill Hougland – Gold Medalist
Bill Hougland transferred to Beloit High School his junior year in 1947. He then took the team to its first state championship game, and...
Olympic Medalists Glen Cunningham and Thane Baker
Glenn ran on the 1932 and 1936 U.S. Olympic teams winning a silver medal in 1936 in the 1500 meters. In 1938 he set...
Frank Bellamy Home and Burial
As a student in Cherryvale Central High School, Frank Bellamy authored the Pledge of Allegiance and brought it into national focus as a winner...
Melissa Etheridge Commemorative Signs
Guitar-shaped signs honoring hometown girl, Grammy award winner, singer, musician, and songwriter Melissa Etheridge.
Elizabeth
When Elizabeth "Grandma" Layton,who lived in Wellsville, began creating art at the age of sixty-eight, she unwittingly embarked on a steady ascent to national...
Emmett Kelly Museum
The Emmett Kelly Museum houses memorabilia of the world famous Wearie Willie Emmett Kelly, who was born in Sedan in 1898 and of his...
William Allen White Monument
The commemorative marble monument honors the Pulitzer Prize winning editor who was reared in El Dorado.
William Allen White The world beat a path to the...
The Dalton Gang
The Dalton Gang, which had been terrorizing the Indian Territory with its daring train robberies, set out in early October of 1892 from their...
George Washington Carver Memorial Plaque
George Washington Carver made Minneapolis, Kansas his hometown from 1880-1884, when he graduated from Minneapolis High School. This famous scientist who lived here and...
John Steuart Curry
John Steuart Curry was born in 1897 and was raised on a farm six miles north of Oskaloosa. He completed the usual farm...
