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80 Foot Wide Brick Streets


category : Pioneer Life
Take a walk along the 80 foot wide brick streets of downtown. WaKeeney was founded in 1879 by the efforts of a 33 year old Chicago real estate developer, James Franklin WaKeeney and partner-friend, Albert Warren. The Warren-Keeney land development company was formed which provided an architect to lay out these streets.


Come visit us in WaKeeney, Kansas

Attractions and Upcoming Events

Outdoor Recreation

Outdoor recreational opportunites abound around WaKeeney. The town is located in an area offering some of the best bird hunting anywhere. Cedar Bluff Lake and State Park, thirteen miles south of town, offers great fishing, camping, and boating. While you're there, explore Threshing Machine Canyon?

WaKeeney, KS Recreation

WaKeeney Municipal Building

This attractive building, which houses the city administration office, was built in 1937 of native limestone.

WaKeeney, KS Historic Buildings

Emanuel Lutheran Church

The Emanuel Lutheran Church was constructed in 1902

WaKeeney, KS Historic Churches

Trego County Historical Society Museum

The Trego County Historical Society Museum, along with the recent addition of a one-room country school house is located on the Trego County Fairgrounds.

WaKeeney, KS Museums

Iwo Jima Memorial

WaKeeney, KS Memorials

Things to do Pioneer Life near WaKeeney, KS

Cowtown History

"Every other business a Saloon!"Durin...

Old Log Hotel

Stone Post Country

Threshing Machine Canyon

In 1867, a party of travelers were transporting three threshing machines belonging to Brigham Young along the Smoky Hill Trai...

Old City Jail