City of Abilene, Dickinson County, Kansas

8 Wonders of Kansas Architecture Winners: Seelye Mansion, Georgian style, 1905, Abilene & Lebold Mansion, 1880, Abilene

Heritage Center of Dickinson County, Abilene
Museum of Independent Telephony, Abilene

WWW-VL: US Historic Preservation

Dickinson County Web Sites

• Chapman
• Herington
• Kansas Compassionate Care Coalition
• The Medical Front WWI, All medical aspects & history, military and civilian, of World War One, the Great War

Art and Theater

• Artists In Kansas KS Art Centers, Art Galleries,
  Kansas Art Museums, KS Art Events
• Beats In Kansas: The Beat Generation in the Heartland; Charles Plymell,
  Wichita Vortex, William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg in Lawrence
• William Burroughs Photo Gallery (1914 - August 2, 1997)
• Cooking In Kansas KS Recipes, cowboy, pioneer cooking, hamburger history
• William Counter, Abilene
• Racing In Kansas KS Racers, Races, and Race Tracks
• The Kansas Guidebook for explorers, by Marci Penner. A tour of every organized city in the state. 432-page book with 400+ color photos and 3,597 entries.

Events and Festivals

• Kansas Art Events
• "Remainder," Featuring William Counter assemblages, and "Haniwa" ceramics by Larry Peters. Also included, new paintings from Lisa Grossman; Colorado plein air paintings by Lyn Phariss and Louise Thies; Kansas landscape photographs by Edward Robison III; and ceramic sculpture by Bo Bedillion; and “natural” ceramics by Liz James. Reception for the artists, Friday, Jan. 23, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m. Showing from Jan. 23 - March 7; Strecker-Nelson Gallery, 406½ Poyntz, Manhattan

History Groups

• Dickinson County Historical Society, Abilene, KS
• Kansas Cattle Town Coalition
  (Abilene, Caldwell, Dodge City, Ellsworth, Newton & Wichita)
• Kansas Museums Association
• KMA Museum Resource Links
• Santa Fe Trail Association Fort Larned

History Web Directories

• Kansas Heritage Group Web Sites
• Kansas History Web Sites
• Kansas Official History Site
• WWW-VL: United States History Timeline

Humanities

• Kansas Humanities Council
• History Alive, Kansas Humanities Council Programs

Libraries

• Kansas State Library, Topeka

WWW-VL: United States History Index

• Kansas History Gateway Lynn H. Nelson, Established 1993
• USA History Maps
• Kansas Timeline
• WWW-VL: The Coming of the Civil War
• WWW-VL: History US 1920s History
• WWW-VL: History US 1930s History
• WWW-VL: History US 1960s History
• American West History: The expansion of America's West; Old West history
• WWW-VL: History: The Coming of the War 1850-1860
• WWW-VL: History: Military History
• WWW-VL: History: Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo) History (for all the Bosnian Kansas friends)
• WWW-VL: History: Internet & W3 History of the internet and the worldwideweb
• WWW-VL: History of Science, Technology & Medicine

Magazines & Newspapers

• Kansas Traveler News for KS Tourists

Museums

• Kansas History Resources Kansas Museums, Genealogy, Libraries
• Dwight D. Eisenhower Center, Abilene
• Dwight D. Eisenhower (Ike) D-Day, 6 June 1944
• Heritage Center of Dickinson County, Abilene
• Museum of Independent Telephony, Abilene
• Kirby House Italianate mansion, (now a restaurant), 1885, Abilene
• Seelye Mansion, Georgian style, 1905, Abilene
• Holmes Anthropology Museum, Southwest Pueblo Indian Pottery Wichita
• WWW-VL: US History Museums
• WWW-VL: US Historic Sites

Native Prairie and Flowers

• Fred's Flower Finder Southwest (SW) Kansas Wildflowers, by Fred Meyer Jr.
• Kansas Sights KS Heritage
• Native Kansas Prairie Wildflowers and Tallgrass Kansas Heritage

Website Tools

• WWW-VL: History: W3 Search Engines Internet search engines,
  search engine tips, website tools, virus and spyware protection
• WWW-VL Web Stacks: Electronic Research Library

Government

• Abilene City Government
• Dickinson County, KS, Official Website
• State and National

Schools and Colleges and Universities

Virtual Colleges

• EduKan Western Kansas Community Colleges
• Fort Hays State University Virtual College
• Kansas State University Div. of Continuing Ed.

Family History

• Family History (all with Kansas ties)
• Kansas Collection Voices from the Past
• Pioneer Trails From U.S. Land Surveys Kansas Heritage
• Kansas Pioneer Project Settlers list

Genealogy

• Kansas Interactive Genealogy
• Source List for Genealogy Research
• Kansas Surname List, Kansas Heritage Group
• Kansas History Resources Kansas Genealogy, Groups, Libraries, Museums
• WWW-VL: History: US Demography and Genealogy

Local History

• Abilene History and Information
• Historical Directory of Kansas Towns (HDKT)
• Interactive Santa Fe Trail
• Kansas Sights
• Portrait Gallery of Eminent Early-Day Kansans
• Old West Photograph Gallery FCHS, Dodge City
• Mueller-Schmidt House (1881) Museum, Dodge City. QT Virtual Panorama Tour [built by John Mueller, formerly Abilene]
• Old West T-Shirts, cards, coffee mugs
• Evolution In Kansas Intelligent Design, Creationism, Evolution Theory
• Kansas Timeline

Maps

• Old Kansas Area Maps Kansas Collection
• Interactive Map of Kansas Kansas Community Network

Old West Kansas

• Old West Kansas, Native tribes to pioneer west, Kansas Heritage Group
• Old West Kansas Cowtowns KS cowboys, cattletowns, pioneers
• Old West Kansas Forts Ft. Leavenworth to Ft. Dodge, KS
• Old West Kansas Gunfighters KS lawmen, outlaws
• Old West Kansas Peoples Immigration to KS
• Old West Kansas Plains and Emigrant Tribes Native Americans (Indians)
• Old West Kansas Railroads
• Old West Kansas Trails

One Room School Houses

• One Room School House Photograph Gallery

Books and Articles

• AmDocs: Documents for the Study of American History from 1400s to 2000s
• Web Stacks: Electronic Research Library
• WWW-VL: Web Ethics
• Cutler's History of the State of Kansas (1883) (Kansas Collection)
• The Medical Front WWI, All medical aspects & history, military and civilian, of World War One, the Great War

Northeast Kansas Towns

Abilene Alma Atchison Belleville Burlington Hiawatha Junction City Kansas City Lawrence Leavenworth

Lyndon Manhattan Marysville Minneapolis Mound City Olathe Paola Topeka Troy Washington Westmoreland