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  1. www.salina.com › story › specialSalina history: main story - Salina Journal

    Aug 20, 2016 · It also became the city’s primary industry and fueled Salina’s great housing boom of the 1950s. The 1950s also saw the construction of a massive flood-control system of levees surrounding the ...

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Salina,_KansasSalina, Kansas - Wikipedia

    476808 [1] Website. salina-ks.gov. Salina / səˈlaɪnə / is a city in and the county seat of Saline County, Kansas, United States. [1] As of the 2020 census, the population was 46,889. [4][5] In the early 1800s, the Kanza tribal land reached eastward from the middle of the Kansas Territory.

  3. books.google.com › books › aboutSalina: 1858-2008 - The Salina History Book Committee ...

    Nov 17, 2008 · The Salina History Book Committee. Arcadia Publishing, Nov 17, 2008 - Photography - 128 pages. Early in 1858, three men walked across the eastern half of Kansas Territory intent on starting a town. Although the volatile conflict between Free State and proslavery forces still simmered, the bloodshed had abated, and Free State factions had gained ...

    • The Salina History Book Committee
    • Arcadia Publishing, 2008
    • 1439636915, 9781439636916
    • Salina: 1858-2008Images of America

  4. www.britannica.com › place › SalinaSalina | Kansas City, Central Plains & Wheat Capital | Britannica

    Salina, city, seat (1859) of Saline county, central Kansas, U.S. It lies on the Smoky Hill River. Founded in 1858 by an antislavery group headed by William A. Phillips, it was named for the Saline River, which enters the Smoky Hill just to the east. The town’s growth was slow until the arrival of the Union (later Kansas) Pacific Railroad in 1867.

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  5. legendsofkansas.com › salina-kansasSalina, Kansas - Legends of Kansas

    With the continued growth primarily through wholesale and milling industries, Salina became the third-largest producer in the state and sixth-largest in the nation. Salina’s population continued to grow through the decades and received another boost in 1943 when the U.S. Army established the Smoky Hill Army Airfield southwest of the city.

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  6. simple.wikipedia.org › wiki › Salina,_KansasSalina, Kansas - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Salina is at 38°50′25″N 97°36′41″W (38.8402805, -97.6114237. It has an elevation of 1,224 feet (373 m). [1] It is in north-central Kansas at the intersection of Interstate 70 and Interstate 135. It is 81 miles (130 km) north of Wichita, Kansas, 164 miles (264 km) west of Kansas City, Missouri, and 401 miles (645 km) east of Denver ...

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  8. kspatriot.org › index › articlesSalina Kansas History - Kansas State History

    Salina is the home town of Guy T. Helvering, present U. S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue (1938), and a former mayor of the city. William A. Phillips, a Scotchman who had come to Kansas in 1855 as a special correspondent for the New York Tribune, journeyed through the unsettled section of the territory in 1857, searching for an attractive townsite.

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