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  • Linear Trail Marker Map

    Walking Through History on the Linear Trail

    In collaboration with the Riley County Genealogical Society, this project is a series of 10 historical markers related to Manhattan’s past, which will be placed at trailheads along the 9.4 mile path of the Linear Trail.

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    Lost Kansas Communities

    This research collection is a digital archive featuring rural Kansas, history, and people conducted by undergraduate students at Kansas State University since 2010 exclusively for the Chapman Center for Rural Studies.

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  • Treaty

    Kansas Land Treaties

    The Kansas Land Treaties Project is a public resource for educators, students, and the public to learn more about how Kansas went from the ancestral homeland of Indigenous nations to a state within the United States. This project is in process and will change over the next several years. Remember…

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CCRS @ KMA 2025

The Chapman Center had a wonderful time at the 2025 Kansas Museums Association Conference - Meet in the Middle in Great Bend!