Hutchinson also has the world's largest grain elevator. Excavated portions of one mine are used today for archival storage of movie and television masters including the Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind and Star Wars. Salt was discovered here in 1887 and is still mined here today. Board of Education school integration case. In Topeka once lived Linda Brown, of the Brown vs. And then Topeka, Kansas' capital was our next middle of the night stop. Next up was Lawrence, Kansas where the founder of basketball lived, James Naismith. They say that this town was the pattern that Walt used to make Main Street, USA at Disneyland. Near there is a town called Marceline the home of Walt Disney. Truman and Jean Harlow were born in Kansas City. Mommy and I are glad we missed seeing that. In Kansas City we passed over the Missouri River on a 135ft high steel bridge. Outlaw Jesse James used to hang out in Sugar Creek and died in 1882 in St. La Plata is famous for deer, pheasant and turkey hunting. Also through the night we missed La Plata, Spanish for silver, Missouri. US soldiers set fire to the original fort in 1813 to throw the Indians off course so the settlers could escape the Indians. It was built in 1927.While we were sleeping we went through Fort Madison, Iowa, which is our only stop in Iowa. It was really cool because we crossed the Mighty Mississippi River by going over the longest (3347 ft) double-track, double-decked swing span bridge on earth. Galesburg, Illinois, the home of writer Carl Sandburg, TV superman George Reeves, drug store founder Charles Rudolph Walgreen and ferris wheel inventor George Washington Gale Farris. Every town seems to have a Native American name we just passed through Kewanee, Illinois which means prairie chicken. In Mendota they have the Sweet Corn Festival and its no wonder because that is the only thing we see growing in this country. An Indian name meaning crossing of trains.
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