Topeka
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- Names
Topeka
Mid-Continent
To-pe-ka
To-poo-ka
Too Beega
Topage
Topeca
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located in NE Kansas on Kansas river; Free State Constitution was framed here by anti-slavery forces in 1855; active in conflicts between pro- & anti-slavery forces deciding whether slavery would be allowed in Kansas (1854-1861).
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Canby, Historic Places (1984); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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