Topeka.

Topeka. təpē'kə[钥匙]，城市（1990 Pop.119,883），州首都和Shawnee Co的席位，Ne Kans，在堪萨斯河上;公司1857年。在富裕的农业区域，它是牛和小麦的一个重要的运输点以及农产品的批发，营销和加工中心。有保险业务，粮食厂，肉类，肉类，大型铁路维修店，以及制造轮胎和橡胶产品的植物。在1842年在那里建立了渡轮俄勒冈州路径。该市于1854年由劳伦斯和新英格兰的自由州定居者组建，并成立为C.K. Holliday的Regored Railroad（Atchison，Topeka和Santa Fe）。A short-lived Free State constitution was framed in the city in 1855. Topeka was selected state capital when Kansas was admitted to the Union in 1861. The capitol is designed after the one in Washington, D.C. A city of broad, tree-shaded streets, Topeka has the museum and library of the state historical society, the Mulvane Art Museum, the state library, a notable Episcopal cathedral, a zoo, and a park system that includes the Reinisch Rose Garden. It is the seat of Washburn Univ. During the 20th cent. Topeka was an important city for psychiatric research and therapy; the world famous Menninger Clinic, a treatment center for mental illness, was there from 1919 to 2003.

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