The largest city in northwestern Hays Kansas, it is the economic and cultural center of the region.
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21 Facts About Hays Kansas
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Hays Kansas became a state in 1861, and the state government delineated the surrounding area as Ellis County in 1867.
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In 1865, the U S Army established Fort Fletcher southeast of present-day Hays to protect stagecoaches traveling the Smoky Hill Trail.
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That same year, six black soldiers at Fort Hays Kansas were murdered, their bodies were dropped in a well that was sodded over, and they were falsely reported as deserters.
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Hays Kansas City became the county seat of Ellis County in 1870, and the town became more civilized.
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Hays Kansas City was incorporated in 1885, and, in 1895, it was renamed as simply Hays Kansas.
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Fort Hays opened as a historical park in 1929 and was later acquired by the Kansas Historical Society.
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Hays Kansas began to modernize in the early 1900s with a power plant, waterworks, telephone exchange, and sewer system complete by 1911.
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Today, Hays is a commercial and educational center for western Kansas.
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Hays Kansas was the subject of an April, 1952 cultural article in National Geographic Magazine.
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Hays Kansas sits near the convergence of a humid continental climate and a temperate semi-arid climate (Koppen BSk).
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Cost of living in Hays is relatively low; compared to a U S average of 100, the cost of living index for the city is 81.
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Hays Kansas is a city of the second class with a commission-manager form of government, which it adopted in 1919.
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Hays Kansas was home to the now closed Bissing's Conservatory of Music established by Petrowitsch Bissing in 1901.
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Hays Kansas's started the collection by setting aside Kansas related materials behind her desk.
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Today, The Hays Kansas Room offers programs related to history, natural history, and genealogy.
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Hays Kansas is in the Wichita-Hutchinson television market, and two television stations broadcast from the city, one CBS network affiliate and one ABC translator station, both of which are satellite stations of their respective affiliates in Wichita.
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Hays Kansas is a regional center of German American culture due to the number of German immigrants who settled the area in the 1870s and 1880s.
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The Hays Kansas Larks are a collegiate summer baseball team in the Jayhawk Collegiate League of the National Baseball Congress.
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Hays Kansas has two sister cities as designated by Sister Cities International:.
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