The first woman mayor in the United States was Susan Madora Salter. She was elected to office in Argonia, Kansas in 1887.
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The rocks at Rock City, Kansas are huge sandstone concretions. In an area about the size of two football fields, 200 rocks, some as large as houses, dot the landscape.
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Kansas won the award for most beautiful license plate for the wheat plate design issued in 1981.