Atchison, Kansas
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Atchison is a city in and the county seat of Atchison County, Kansas, United States, along the Missouri River. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 10,885. The city is named in honor
Commercial Street in downtown Atchison (2006)
Commercial Street, 1860
Looking north at the rail yard beneath the lower Sixth Street viaduct, circa 1880-1900
Pedestrian mall on Commercial Street in downtown Atchison (2006)
David Rice Atchison
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David Rice Atchison was a mid-19th-century Democratic United States Senator from Missouri. He served as president pro tempore of the United States Senate for six years. Atchison served as a major gene
Atchison, Kansas
…Kansas, United States, along the Missouri River. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 10,885. The city is named in honor of US Senator David Rice Atchison from Missouri and was the original eastern terminus of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Atchison is also the home of Benedictine College, a…
David Rice Atchison by Mathew Brady March 1849
Statue in front of the Clinton County Courthouse, Plattsburg, Missouri
David Rice Atchison's tombstone