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JUNCTION See also:CITY , a city and the See also:county-seat of Geary county, See also:Kansas, U.S.A., between Smoky See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill and Republican See also:rivers, about 3 M. above their confluence to See also:form the Kansas, and 72 M. by See also:rail W. of See also:Topeka. Pop. (1900), 4695, of whom 545 wereforeign-See also:born and 292 were negroes; (19o5), 5494; (1910), 5598. Junction City is served by the See also:Union Pacific and the See also:Missouri, Kansas & See also:Texas See also:railways. It is the commercial centre of a region in whose fertile valleys See also:great quantities of See also:wheat, See also:Indian See also:corn, oats and See also:hay are grown and live stock is raised, and whose uplands contain extensive beds of See also:limestone, which is quarried for See also:building purposes. Excellent See also:water-See also:power is available and is partly utilized by See also:flour See also:mills. The See also:municipality owns and operates the waterworks. At the confluence of Smoky Hill and Republican rivers and connected with the city by an electric railway is Fort See also:Riley, a U.S. military See also:post, which was established in 1853 as See also:Camp Centre but was renamed in the same See also:year in See also:honour of See also:General See also:Bennett Riley (1787–1853); in 1887 the mounted service school of the U.S. See also:army was established here. Northward from the post is a rugged See also:country over which extends a military See also:reservation of about 19,000 acres. Adjoining the reservation and about 5 M. N.E. of Junction City is the site of the See also:short-lived See also:settlement of See also:Pawnee, where from the 2nd to the 6th of See also:July 1855 the first Kansas legislature met, in a building the ruins of which still remain; the See also:establishment of Pawnee (in See also:December 1854) was a speculative See also:pro-See also:slavery enterprise conducted by the commandant of Fort Riley, other army See also:officers and certain territorial officials, and when a See also:government survey showed that the site See also:lay within the Fort Riley reservation, the settlers were ordered (See also:August 1855) to leave, and the commandant of Fort Riley was dismissed from the army; one of the charges brought against See also:Governor A. H. Reeder was that he had favoured the enterprise. Junction City was founded in 1857 and was chartered as a city in 1859.
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