13 Facts About Topeka Kansas

Topeka Kansas was chosen as the capital, with Dr Charles Robinson as the first governor.

Topeka Kansas doubled in population during the period, and was able to weather the depressions of the 1890s.

Home to the first African-American kindergarten west of the Mississippi River, Topeka was the home of Oliver Brown, the named plaintiff in Brown v Board of Education, which was the case responsible for eliminating the standard of "separate but equal", and requiring racial integration in American public schools.

Topeka Kansas has struggled with the burden of racial discrimination even after Brown.

Topeka Kansas recovered from the 1966 tornado and has sustained steady economic growth.

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In 1989, Topeka Kansas became a motorsports mecca with the opening of Heartland Park Topeka Kansas.

Voters approved a quarter-cent sales tax for a new law-enforcement center, and in 1996, approved an extension of the sales tax for the East Topeka Interchange connecting the Oakland Expressway, K-4, I-70, and the Kansas Turnpike.

Topeka Kansas has a humid continental climate, with hot, somewhat humid summers and cool to cold, fairly dry winters, and is in USDA plant hardiness zone 6a.

Topeka Kansas is sometimes cited as the home of Pentecostalism, as it was the site of Charles Fox Parham's Bethel Bible College, where glossolalia was first claimed as the evidence of a spiritual experience referred to as the baptism of the Holy Spirit in 1901.

Grace Cathedral of the Episcopal Diocese of Topeka Kansas is a large Gothic Revival structure in the city.

Topeka Kansas is home of the Westboro Baptist Church, a hate group according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Topeka Kansas is home to several private and parochial schools such as Topeka Kansas Collegiate and Cair Paravel-Latin School.

Topeka Kansas has several colleges, universities, technical schools and branch campuses of other universities around the state.