Warehouse District

Warehouse District (HM12AB)

Location: Wichita, KS 67202 Sedgwick County
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Country: United States of America
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N 37° 41.239', W 97° 19.663'

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1872

1872
Colonel Marshall M. Murdock published the first issue of The Wichita Eagle, now the city's only newspaper.

"Cities are not the result of chance nor do they make themselves. Their prosperity and greatness are in a large measure due to the sagacity and enterprise of their founders and early settlers in reaching out and drawing to them the channels of commerce and trade."
James R. Mead, 1884

Following Mead's initiative, the efforts of key businessmen in time brought additional railway services to Wichita. These leaders included Colonel Marshall M. Murdock, M.W. Levy, N.F. Neiderlander, William Grieffenstein, W.C. Woodman, D.S. Munger and A.W. Oliver.

Eagle Publisher Colonel Marshall M. Murdock championed growth. And he believed the central purpose of a city was to support business. When some leaders pushed for locating rail depots on the outskirts of our city, Murdock passionately argued otherwise. "Are we to have a business center and a center of business, or mawkish sentiment and a flattened-out village?"
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HM NumberHM12AB
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Date Added Sunday, September 14th, 2014 at 3:09pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)14S E 647448 N 4172438
Decimal Degrees37.68731667, -97.32771667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 37° 41.239', W 97° 19.663'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds37° 41' 14.34" N, 97° 19' 39.78" W
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Area Code(s)316
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 117-167 N Mosley, Wichita KS 67202, US
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