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Pawnee, Kansas, the Glossary

Pawnee is a ghost town in Geary County, Kansas, United States, which briefly served as the first official capital of the Kansas Territory in 1855.^[1]

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Capitals of Kansas
Ghost towns in Kansas
Pre-statehood history of Kansas

Acre

The acre is a unit of land area used in the British imperial and the United States customary systems.

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Andrew Horatio Reeder

Andrew Horatio Reeder (July 12, 1807 – July 5, 1864) was the first governor of the Territory of Kansas.

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Area code 785

Area code 785 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan for most of the northern part of the U.S. state Kansas.

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Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas, or the Border War was a series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory, and to a lesser extent in western Missouri, between 1854 and 1859. Pawnee, Kansas and Bleeding Kansas are pre-statehood history of Kansas.

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Capital city

A capital city or just capital is the municipality holding primary status in a country, state, province, department, or other subnational division, usually as its seat of the government.

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating population information about the members of a given population.

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Centennial

A centennial, or centenary in British English, is a 100th anniversary or otherwise relates to a century, a period of an exact century.

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Central Time Zone

The North American Central Time Zone (CT) is a time zone in parts of Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America and some Caribbean islands.

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Cholera

Cholera is an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.

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Colorado Territory

The Territory of Colorado was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from February 28, 1861, until August 1, 1876, when it was admitted to the Union as the State of Colorado.

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Election

An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office.

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Emigration

Emigration is the act of leaving a resident country or place of residence with the intent to settle elsewhere (to permanently leave a country).

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Fairway, Kansas

Fairway is a city in Johnson County, Kansas, United States. Pawnee, Kansas and Fairway, Kansas are capitals of Kansas.

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Federal Information Processing Standards

The Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) of the United States are a set of publicly announced standards that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed for use in computer situs of non-military United States government agencies and contractors.

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Fort Riley

Fort Riley is a United States Army installation located in North Central Kansas, on the Kansas River, also known as the Kaw, between Junction City and Manhattan.

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Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce (November 23, 1804October 8, 1869) was an American politician who served as the 14th president of the United States from 1853 to 1857.

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Free-Stater (Kansas)

Free-Staters was the name given to settlers in Kansas Territory during the "Bleeding Kansas" period in the 1850s who opposed the expansion of slavery.

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French and Indian War

The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes.

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Geary County, Kansas

Geary County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas.

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Geographic center of the United States

The geographic center of the United States is a point approximately north of Belle Fourche, South Dakota at.

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Geographic Names Information System

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and location information about more than two million physical and cultural features throughout the United States and its territories; the associated states of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau; and Antarctica.

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Ghost town

A ghost town, deserted city, extinct town, or abandoned city is an abandoned settlement, usually one that contains substantial visible remaining buildings and infrastructure such as roads.

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Great Plains

The Great Plains are a broad expanse of flatland in North America.

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History of Kansas

The U.S. state of Kansas, located on the eastern edge of the Great Plains, was the home of nomadic Native American tribes who hunted the vast herds of bison (often called "buffalo").

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Jefferson Davis

Jefferson F. Davis (June 3, 1808December 6, 1889) was an American politician who served as the first and only president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865.

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Jefferson Township, Geary County, Kansas

Jefferson Township is a township in Geary County, Kansas, USA.

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Kansas

Kansas is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Kansas Historical Society

The Kansas Historical Society is the official state historical society of Kansas.

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Kansas River

The Kansas River, also known as the Kaw, is a meandering river in northeastern Kansas in the United States.

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Kansas Territory

The Territory of Kansas was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from May 30, 1854, until January 29, 1861, when the eastern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the free state of Kansas. Pawnee, Kansas and Kansas Territory are pre-statehood history of Kansas.

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Kansas–Nebraska Act

The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 was a territorial organic act that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska.

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Kingdom of France

The Kingdom of France is the historiographical name or umbrella term given to various political entities of France in the medieval and early modern period.

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Lawrence Journal-World

The Lawrence Journal-World is a daily newspaper published in Lawrence, Kansas, United States, by Ogden Newspapers.

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Lawrence, Kansas

Lawrence is a city in and the county seat of Douglas County, Kansas, United States, and the sixth-largest city in the state. Pawnee, Kansas and Lawrence, Kansas are capitals of Kansas.

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Leavenworth, Kansas

Leavenworth is the county seat and largest city of Leavenworth County, Kansas, United States and is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 37,351. It is located on the west bank of the Missouri River. The site of Fort Leavenworth, built in 1827, the city became known in American history for its role as a key supply base in the settlement of the American West. Pawnee, Kansas and Leavenworth, Kansas are capitals of Kansas.

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Lebanon, Kansas

Lebanon is a city in Smith County, Kansas, United States.

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List of capitals in the United States

This is a list of capital cities of the United States, including places that serve or have served as federal, state, insular area, territorial, colonial and Native American capitals.

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List of counties in Kansas

This is a list of counties in the U.S. state of Kansas.

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List of ghost towns in Kansas

This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in the state of Kansas. Pawnee, Kansas and list of ghost towns in Kansas are ghost towns in Kansas.

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List of sovereign states

The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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List of townships in Kansas

The U.S. state of Kansas is divided into 1,404 townships in 105 counties.

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Louisiana Purchase

The Louisiana Purchase (translation) was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803. Pawnee, Kansas and Louisiana Purchase are pre-statehood history of Kansas.

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Manhattan, Kansas

Manhattan is a city in and the county seat of Riley County, Kansas, U.S., although the city extends into Pottawatomie County.

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Military base

A military base is a facility directly owned and operated by or for the military or one of its branches that shelters military equipment and personnel, and facilitates training and operations.

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Millennium

A millennium is a period of one thousand years, sometimes called a '''kiloannum''' (ka), or kiloyear (ky).

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Missouri

Missouri is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value".

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.

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New England Emigrant Aid Company

The New England Emigrant Aid Company (originally the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company) was a transportation company founded in Boston, Massachusetts by activist Eli Thayer in the wake of the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which allowed the population of Kansas Territory to choose whether slavery would be legal. Pawnee, Kansas and New England Emigrant Aid Company are pre-statehood history of Kansas.

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New France

New France (Nouvelle-France) was the territory colonized by France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Great Britain and Spain in 1763 under the Treaty of Paris.

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Nomad

Nomads are communities without fixed habitation who regularly move to and from areas.

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North America

North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

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North American Numbering Plan

The North American Numbering Plan (NANP) is a telephone numbering plan for twenty-five regions in twenty countries, primarily in North America and the Caribbean.

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Old Colorado City

Old Colorado City, formerly Colorado City, was once a town, but it is now a neighborhood within the city of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Pawnee, Kansas and Old Colorado City are former colonial and territorial capitals in the United States.

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Pawnee people

The Pawnee are a Central Plains Indian tribe that historically lived in Nebraska and northern Kansas but today are based in Oklahoma.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch), is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.

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Penny (United States coin)

The cent, the United States of America one-cent coin (symbol: ¢), often called the "penny", is a unit of currency equaling one one-hundredth of a United States of America dollar.

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Plat

In the United States, a plat (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land.

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President of the United States

The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Robert Klotz

Robert Klotz (October 27, 1819 – May 1, 1895) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

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Shawnee Methodist Mission

Shawnee Methodist Mission, also known as the Shawnee Mission, which later became the Shawnee Indian Manual Labor School, is located in Fairway, Kansas, United States. Pawnee, Kansas and Shawnee Methodist Mission are capitals of Kansas, former colonial and territorial capitals in the United States and pre-statehood history of Kansas.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawnee,_Kansas

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Pawnee, Kansas, the Glossary

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Capitals of Kansas

Ghost towns in Kansas

Pre-statehood history of Kansas

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