40 Facts About Lawrence Kansas

Lawrence Kansas was founded "strictly for political reasons" having to do with slavery, which was heavily debated in the United States in the early to mid-1800s.

In time, anger at the Lawrence Kansas-Nebraska Act united antislavery forces into a movement committed to stopping the expansion of slavery, eventually institutionalized as the Republican Party.

The Lawrence Kansas-Nebraska Act passed while they were in the territory, and they were instrumental in convincing others to come.

The first post office in Lawrence was established in January 1855, and E D Ladd was appointed the town's first postmaster.

The people of Lawrence Kansas felt this did nothing, and many were uncertain about what would happen or what they needed to do.

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Lawrence Kansas was rescued at one in the morning, just two hours after the arrest.

Lawrence Kansas was additionally aided by John Brown and his four sons: John Jr.

The people of Lawrence Kansas disavowed the act, and they offered a $500 bounty for the sniper's arrest.

In both 1855 and 1857, Lawrence Kansas received a charter from the proslavery government in Lecompton, but the citizens, being adamant in their opposition to the "Bogus Legislature", refused to accept it, as it would have organized Lawrence Kansas under proslavery laws.

In July 1857, the citizens of Lawrence Kansas then attempted to secure an "official" city charter from the extralegal Free-State legislature before issuing one themselves.

The Plymouth Congregational Church in Lawrence Kansas survived the attack, but a number of its members were killed and its records were destroyed.

Attempts to begin a university in Lawrence Kansas were first undertaken in 1855, but it was only after Lawrence Kansas became a state in 1861 that those attempts saw any real fruition.

When Lawrence Kansas became a state, provision was included in the Lawrence Kansas Constitution for a state university.

In 1903, the Kansas River flooded causing property damage in Lawrence, especially North Lawrence.

Lawrence Kansas would be hit by other floods in 1951, where the water rose over 30 feet, and in 1993 but with the reservoir and levee system in place, Lawrence Kansas only had minimal damage compared to the other floods.

In November 2014, in the wake of the opening of a new Dick's Sporting Goods location in Lawrence Kansas, Francis Sporting Goods, announced its retail business within what had become Lawrence Kansas's Downtown Historic District would close by the end of the year, allowing the Francis family to focus on supplying uniforms and equipment to teams.

In 1989, the Free State Brewing Company opened in Lawrence becoming the first legal brewery in Kansas in more than 100 years.

Lawrence Kansas has 54 parks which include community and neighborhood parks, trails, cemeteries and nature preserves.

Lawrence Kansas has a humid continental climate, typically experiencing hot, humid summers and cold, dry winters.

Grant Township, north of the Lawrence Kansas River, was annexed to Douglas County in 1870 from southern Sarcoxie Township in Jefferson County.

Just northeast of North Lawrence Kansas there once was a popular park area known as Bismarck Grove.

South Park is a large park in Downtown Lawrence Kansas divided by Massachusetts Street just south of the county courthouse between North Park and South Park Streets.

Lawrence Kansas is the site of many historic houses related to the history of the city.

Lawrence Kansas is home to the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction, the first research center in the world dedicated to science fiction studies.

Since 1969, the center has offered courses and workshops in science fiction literature and writing, hosted an annual conference, brought speakers to Lawrence Kansas, and presented multiple annual awards and scholarships.

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Douglas County, where Lawrence is situated, was one of only two counties in Kansas whose majority voted for John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election, one of only three that voted for Barack Obama in the 2008 election and one of the only two counties to vote for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.

Lawrence Kansas is served by Democratic state representatives Christina Haswood, Mike Amyx, Barbara Ballard and Dennis "Boog" Highberger, and by Democratic state senators Marci Francisco, and Tom Holland.

Douglas County was the only county in Lawrence Kansas to reject the amendment to the Lawrence Kansas Constitution prohibiting both gay marriage and civil unions in April 2005.

Newer developments in the northwestern part of Lawrence Kansas are within the boundaries for Perry-Lecompton School District, and students in this area attend Lecompton Elementary, Perry Elementary, Perry-Lecompton Middle School, and Perry-Lecompton High School.

Lawrence Kansas was included in lists of top college towns in 2010 by the American Institute for Economic Research, MSN and MSNBC.

One of the first businesses established in Lawrence Kansas was a newspaper, the Herald of Freedom, which began in October 1854 and ceased publication in 1859.

From 1947 until 1981, Lawrence Kansas was the location of the Centron Corporation, one of the major industrial and educational film production companies in the United States at the time.

Lawrence Kansas is the home of a daily newspaper, the Lawrence Kansas Journal-World.

The student newspaper of the University of Lawrence Kansas is The University Daily Kansan, which stopped publishing regular print editions in 2020 due to the COVID-19 Pandemic and removed the paper's distribution boxes.

The K-10 South Lawrence Trafficway is a project with the goal to connect K-10 and the Kansas Turnpike.

Amtrak's Lawrence Kansas station is a few blocks east of downtown.

Lawrence Kansas ranked 62nd in the United States for the highest percentage of commuters by bicycle in 2011 at 1.

Lawrence Kansas has one hospital, the non-profit community-owned Lawrence Kansas Memorial Hospital.

Lawrence Kansas is a setting in the 1983 television movie The Day After, and parts of the movie were filmed in the city.

Cross Canadian Ragweed's 2007 album Mission California features the song "Lawrence Kansas", which was inspired by a homeless family the band encountered near Christmas while visiting the town.