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- ↑ Morgan, Perl Wilbur (1911). History of Wyandotte County, Kansas: And Its People, Volume 1. The Lewis Publishing Company. p. 324.
- ↑ "Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961". Kansas Historical Society. Archived from the original on April 10, 2013. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
- ↑ "2012 Kansas Boys State Football Playoff Brackets: KSHSAA (Class 4A) - MaxPreps".
- ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-01-23. Retrieved 2013-03-22.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ↑ http://kckps.cloudaccess.net/images/schools/map.pdf%5B%5D
- ↑ Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas - Historical and Biographical; Goodspeed Publishing Co; 932 pages; 1890.
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