Topeka

Bob Ross, senior vp of marketing at the Greater Topeka Partnership, expects each of the $10,000 “Choose Topeka” incentives his region offers to generate $50,000 of economic impact within just one year.

As a Kansas native, Brad had long been familiar with—and fascinated by—the hateful antics of the Topeka-based church.

Instead, Drain wound up moving his family from Tampa to Topeka to join the congregation.

Fred Phelps and several of his children have law degrees and run the successful Phelps-Chartered law firm in Topeka.

Shirley Phelps-Roper decided to take her two daughters to New York City from Topeka, Kansas.

Diagnosed as schizophrenic, he spent two years at the Menninger Clinic, a Topeka, Kansas psychiatric institution.

He and his companion paid the amount required and we were permitted to ride in the parlor car to Topeka, Kansas.

A committee of volunteers from Topeka offered their assistance, but were told: "We do not want you."

Lawrence and Topeka were twenty-five miles apart, and both were on the south bank of the Kansas River.

The trail thence followed the divide between the creek and river to about the present site of Topeka.

The general opinion gathered that day was that they who wanted to fight for freedom might better go to Lawrence, or to Topeka.