Current Projects

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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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Join us at the Kansas Science Festival 2025!

We are pleased to announce that we will be participating in the Kansas Science Festival again this year! Come visit us on Saturday, April 26th at the Manhattan Public Library and enjoy activities such as our Kansas Place Name Challenge, print a spectogram of your name activity, and our dialect quiz! To learn more about the Kansas Science Festival, visit their Facebook page here!