Kansas, which closed following the 1951 flood. Many people are well aware of the history of segregation of African American students in the Kansas City, Missouri, public schools, but there’s a ...

Art Eickhoff remembers July 13, 1951, well. “You could see the ... The museum is located at 631 N 126th St., Bonner Springs, KS, 66012. An annual flood reunion picnic takes place Sunday, July ...

Panoramic view of the West Bottoms during the 1951 Flood. Spectators observe the damage from West Terrace Park, where Interstate 35 runs now. Kansas City Public Library From May through July ...

People with boats help residents in Hays after the devastating May 22, 1951 ... Society, Ottawa; Mr. and Mrs. F.L. Schlagle Library and Environmental Learning Center, Kansas City, Kan.; ...

Topeka was among 186 cities and towns in Kansas and Missouri damaged by the 1951 flood, which cost 40 Kansans their lives. Storms that began in late April dumped 28 inches of rain over the Kansas ...

(WIBW) - 70 years ago on July 13th, 1951, 370,000 Kansans were being ... in Topeka where waters reached 14.8 feet above flood stage when the Kansas River crested at 40.8 feet.

The Northeast Kansas Flood of 1951, a day some call ‘Black Friday’, killed 24 people and caused thousands of people to abandon their homes, schools and businesses.The damage costs were $760 ...

A distant view of the West Bottoms from the northwest after the 1951 flood. Kansas City owes its place on the map and its early prosperity to rivers. But those same streams that carried people and ...

Oct. 14, 1951. New York? A poignant 1951 painting by American artist Thomas Hart Benton depicting a devastating flood in Kansas and Missouri sold for nearly $1.9 million on Thursday. The price for ...

This picture shows the painting “Flood Disaster ... the damage caused when the Kansas and Missouri rivers swelled to 70 times their normal size on July 13, 1951, goes on the block just ...