Author: Explore Crawford County

Industry

Public billboards

The locations listed below have space for posters to be displayed to the public or their employees IF they think it is relevant to their customers/employees. ALWAYS ask for permission to display anything FIRST.

Annual, Girard area

Happy Walnut Day (5/17)

Happy Walnut Day! We’re nuts about our small towns in Crawford County and on National Walnut Day we’re celebrating Walnut, Kansas, population 220. Walnut was originally called Glenwood, in 1874, it was renamed Walnut after the Little Walnut Creek, on which it is located. The first post office at Walnut […]

Pittsburg, Sightseer

Hotel Stilwell History

The Hotel Stilwell’s history runs back to 1889, when a board of trade sought funds to build a high-class, metropolitan hotel to rival those in Chicago and St. Louis. Funds for the hotel came together through the work of railroad tycoon Arthur E. Stilwell, who agreed to sell bonds in […]