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Riley County/Manhattan Timeline 1811-2009
Below is a timeline of Riley County and Manhattan, ranging from 1811 to 2009. This was prepared on November 23, 2009 by the staff of the Riley County Historical Museum, with the assistance of Lowell Jack.
Any additions and corrections to this timeline will be appreciated.
1811 - 1913
1811 | Major George Sibley visits the Kanza Blue Earth Village, located between the Kansas and Blue Rivers about four miles east of Manhattan. |
1819 | Artist Samuel Seymour, part of Major Long's expedition, makes a sketch of the interior of a Kanza lodge at the Kanza Blue Earth Village. This is the earliest surviving picture known of Kansas. |
1825, 6/3 | The Kanza Nation cedes twenty million acres of land and settles in a defined area centered by their Blue Earth Village. |
1827-1830 | Kanza Nation departs from the Blue Earth Village |
1842 | John C. Fremont visits the vicinity of what becomes Manhattan. |
1853 | Samuel Dyer runs government ferry at Juniata. |
1853 | Camp Center renamed Fort Riley. |
1854. 5/30 | Kansas Nebraska Act becomes law, creating the Territory of Kansas and officially opening the Territory to legal settlement. |
1854 | George S. Park establishes Poliska. |
1854 | S.D. Houson, J.M. Russell, S.W. Johnson and E.M. Thurston establish Canton at base of Bluemont Hill. |
1854 | Pawnee, first Territorial Capital built. |
1854 | First house in Riley County built by Thomas Reynolds. |
1854 | First settlers in Zeandale Township take claims. |
1855, 3/24 | Isaac Goodnow and party arrive. |
1855, 4/6 | Town of Boston formed from Poliska, Canton and Goodnow's New England Emigrant Aid Society group. |
1855, 4/22 | Ashland colony established south of Manhattan. |
1855, 6/1 | Steamboat Hartford (Cincinnati and Kansas Land Co.) runs aground near Boston settlement. |
1855, 7/4 | Hartford group joins Boston settlement, town renamed Manhattan. |
1855, 8/25 | Riley County organized. |
1855, 9/7 | First Manhattan settler death. G.W. Barnes died from typhoid fever. |
1855, 9/17 | First birth to Manhattan settlers, Irving Roscoe Lovejoy to Charles and Julia Lovejoy. |
1856, January | First marriage in county: Thomas Platt and Sally Pipher. |
1856, 2/26 | Government bridge at Juniata swept by flood. |
1856 | Blue River established as border between Riley and Pottawatomie Counties. |
1856, 3/20 | Ogden Post Office established. |
1856, 4/2 | Riley County divided into four townships: Ogden, Dyer, Pierce, Manhattan. |
1856, 4/28 | Arrival of Beecher Bible and Rifle Company at Wabaunsee. |
1856, 8/6 | First recorded deed in Riley County, land sold by W.M. Shain to Lewis Johnson. |
1856, 8/8 | Randolph Post Office established. It closed on /29/1960 and reopened in 1964. |
1856, 9/4 | Manhattan Post Office Established. |
1857, 2/10 | Ogden Town Company incorporated. |
1857, 2/14 | Manhattan becomes a Third Class City. |
1857, 2/14 | Manhattan Institute incorporated. |
1857 | Zeandale Post Office established. |
1857 | First school building erected at 9th and Poyntz. |
1857 | First church erected in the county, the Methodist Episcopal at Juliete and Pierre. |
1857 | Amanda Arnold employed to teach spring school term. |
1857, 5/30 | First Manhattan city officers elected: A.J. Mead, mayor and ten member city council. |
1858 | Bacheller (later called Milford) incorporated in Riley County. |
1858, 1/20 (30?) | Manhattan becomes county seat after a disputed election. |
1858, 2/9 | Bluemont Central College incorporated by Kansas legislature, signed by Governor Denver. Baker University and Highland College were also incorporated at the same time. |
1859, 2/7 | City of Ogden incorporated. |
1859, 5/10 | Bluemont College cornerstone laid. |
1859, 5/15 | Tornado hits Manhattan, takes roof off the newly constructed Congregational Church and damages homes and businesses. |
1859, 5/21 | Manhattan's first newspaper The Kansas Express is published by Charles Francis De Vivaldi. The first paper was printed in Wyandotte, KS. |
1859, 5/26 | Horace Greeley visits Manhattan. |
1859, 10/6 | The federal land office at Ogden is moved into Junction City. |
1859 | Manhattan is a stop on the Leavenworth and Pikes Peak Express Company route to the Colorado gold fields. |
1859 | Manhattan House Hotel is built. |
1860, 1/9 | Bluemont Central College opened. Joseph Denison is the first President. |
1860 | Drought in Kansas. |
1860 | Manhattan passes ordinance prohibiting swine from running at large. |
1860 | Thirty-five acres purchased from C.J. Lewis for Manhattan cemetery. Juliette Lovejoy Whitehorn is the first interment. |
1861 | Manhattan boundaries defined by state act. |
1861 | First Kansas Calvary organized. |
1861 | S.D. Houston elected first state senator from Riley County. |
1862 | Morrill Act passes making land grant for colleges possible. |
1862 | Isaac Goodnow elected State Superintendent of Public Instruction. |
1863, 9/2 | First term of Bluemont College begins. |
1863, Fall | Last buffalo in area killed in Ogden. |
1864, November | Presidential election: 220 Republicans, 51 Democrats vote |
1866, August | Kansas Pacific Railroad completed to Blue River east bank. |
1866 | Pontoon bridge built at the foot of Poyntz. |
1866 | Riley Countian Nehemiah Green elected Lieutenant Governor. |
1867, 4/24 | Earthquake shakes area. The earthquake was between Wamego and Manhattan and was the largest in Kansas recorded history (as of 2007). It registered between 5.2 and 5.5. |
1867, September | Susan B. Anthony speaks in Manhattan. |
1868 | Milford Township organized. |
1868 | Bacheller name changed to Milford. |
1868 | Nehemiah Green becomes governor following Governor S.J. Crawford's resignation. |
1868 | James M. Harvey, Riley County, elected governor. |
1868 | Riley County population 5,104; Manhattan 1,173. |
1870 | Grant Township organized. |
1871 | Zeandale Township transferred from Wabaunsee to Riley County. |
1871 | South Milford Township organized. |
1871 | Bridges over Blue and Kansas Rivers completed. |
1871 | Mayday Township organized. |
1872 | Work starts on the Manhattan and Northwestern Railroad. |
1872 | Name of Milford Township changed to Bala Township. |
1872 | Presidential election: 1,055 Republicans and 338 Liberals vote. |
1873 | John A. Anderson becomes second president of Kansas State Agricultural College. |
1873 | Ashland Township transferred from Davis to Riley County. |
1874 | James M. Harvey chosen U.S. Senator. |
1874, August | Huge grasshopper invasion. |
1875 | Population of Riley County, 7,066. |
1875 | Earthquake strikes area. |
1876, November | Presidential election: 1,133 Republican, 223 Democrat, 65 Greenback vote. |
1877 | Professor William Kedzie built first telephone system at college. |
1878 | John A. Anderson elected to Congress. |
1879 | Great cyclone hits northern part of Riley County. |
1879 | Swede Creek Township organized. |
1879 | Fancy Creek Township organized. |
1880 | Manhattan becomes a City of Second Class. |
1880, 10/10 | New Methodist Episcopal Church in Manhattan dedicated. |
1880 | Presidential election: 1,484 Republican, 376 Democrat and 347 Greenback. 1,178 for the Prohibition Amendment, 828 opposed. John A. Anderson re-elected to Congress. |
1880 | Riley County population, 10,476; Manhattan 2,104. |
1880 | Right of way secured for Burlingame, Alma and Manhattan Railroad. |
1881, 2/15 | Alembic Post Office established. |
1881, 9/8 | No child under age 7 allowed to attend Manhattan schools due to over crowding. |
1882, 6/28 | Leonardville Post Office established. |
1887 | Fairmont Addition develops. |
1888 | Riley County population 15,000; Manhattan 4,500. |
1888 | First Manhattan Water Works Built, 3rd and Ratone. |
1889, May | Secretary of War visits Fort Riley. |
1890, 1/1 | Incandescent electric lights turned on in downtown Manhattan streets. |
1894 | Wareham and Wood awarded telephone exchange contract. |
1895, 10/31 | Two earthquakes hit area. |
1900, 4/30 | A hundred businessmen form a Commercial Club. |
1900 | Population of city is 3,438; Kansas State Agricultural College enrollment is 1,321. |
1901 | City houses were numbered and street names posted so door to door mail delivery could begin. |
1901 | City water switches from Blue River to wells. |
1901 | C.P. Dewey's Manhattan Beach/Eureka Lake Resort opened. |
1902, April | First automobile in Manhattan hits the streets, a delivery wagon. |
1902 | Union Pacific depot built. |
1902 | First golf course built in Manhattan in City Park. |
1903 | Theodore Roosevelt visits Manhattan. |
1903, 5/29 | Early June brings a major flood. |
1903 | New city hall/fire station opened on North 3rd Street near Humboldt. |
1904 | Andrew Carnegie gives $10,000 to start library. |
1906 | Riley County Courthouse built at cost of $50,000; Citizens contribute $1,000 for tower clock. |
1906, 1/7 | Earthquake hits Manhattan. |
1906, 2/21 | Independent Order of Odd Fellows/Rebekah buys the Eureka Lake Manhattan Beach Resort and the first resident in the Old Folks Building (the former Manhattan Beach Hotel) is admitted. |
1906, 3/1 | Prairie fire swept over 2,000 acres of the Fort Riley reservation. Adjoining farms saved by backfires. |
1906, 4/26 | The Rebekah state assembly and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows dedicate their home for orphans at Eureka Lake near Manhattan. |
1906, 5/26 | The first annual college track meet in Kansas held at the Topeka fairgrounds. Kansas State Agricultural College wins first place with 58 points. Other schools entered: Emporia Normal, College of Emporia, Fairmont, Cooper, St. Mary's and Washburn. |
1906, 7/4 | The Populist party state convention at Topeka nominates their ticket, including Robert Hauserman, Riley County, Secretary of State. |
1906, 10/24 | James W. Forsyth, major general of the U.S. Army dies at Columbus, Ohio. He was commandant at Fort Riley several years and was called the "military pet of the Sunflower state". He left Kansas in 1894. |
1907, 2/9 | The Supreme Court dismisses the Dewey-Berry case which had been postponed through five successive terms of the Norton County district court. Chauncey Dewey and two of his men had killed three members of the Berry family in a fight over a water tank. Feeling was strong against the Deweys who had foreclosed mortgages and bought up tax titles, thus acquiring an 80,000 acre ranch in Northwest Kansas. |
1907, April | New Parkview Hospital built and occupied. |
1907, 10/5 | Olive-drab uniforms issued at Fort Riley. They were "destined to do away with the old blue uniforms throughout the army". |
1907, 10/17 | Fort Riley selected as the site for a $42,000 army balloon plant. |
1907, 11/25 | John G. Haskell, State Architect from 1866-1874, who designed the State House, dies at his home in Lawrence. Haskell designed a number of buildings in Manhattan. |
1908, June | Flood. |
1908 | Rocky Ford Dam and Power Plant built. |
1909 | First trolley car runs made from Union Pacific depot to campus. |
1910 | Brick factory opens to produce up to 20,000 bricks daily for sidewalks and homes. |
1910 | Poyntz Avenue paved from Blue River to Courthouse. |
1910 | Population of Manhattan 6,300. |
1910 | Manhattan has 60 miles of paved streets. |
1910 | Marshall Theatre opens downtown. |
1911 | Nichols Gymnasium built on the Kansas State Agricultural College campus. |
1912 | Trolley service to Eureka Lake Electric Park, Fort Riley and Junction City begins. |
1913 | Manhattan population 7,000; Kansas State Agricultural College has 3,000 students. |
1913 - 1981
1913 | New sanitary sewer built at cost of $87,000 and outhouses begin to disappear as 10-12 houses hook on daily. |
1913 | New high school built at cost of $90,000 at Poyntz and 10th. |
1914, 10/13 | Dedication of the new fire proof Juvenile Building at the Rebekah-Odd Fellows Home of Kansas at Eureka Lake. |
1915 | Flood makes changes in Blue River; moves from east end of Poyntz to current juncture with Kansas River |
1915 | Aggieville Club formed by 23 business owners. |
1916, 11/26 | Fire destroys the Old Peoples' building at the Rebekah-Odd Fellows Home of Kansas at Eureka Lake. This was the former Manhattan Beach Hotel at the Manhattan Beach Resort. There was one death. |
1917 | Manhattan Country Club formed on Bluemont Hill. |
1917, April | New York Giants play the Detroit Tigers on the College field. Notables such as John McGraw stay at the Gillett Hotel. |
1917, 6/8 | First Division United States Army established. |
1917 | Delta Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma founded at Kansas State Agricultural College. This is the first chapter of Phi Beta Sigma (which was founded at Howard University in 1914) established on a racially mixed campus west of the Mississippi River. Delta Chapter closed in 1930. |
1918, February | Ogden City gets electricity. |
1918, April | St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago White Sox play exhibition baseball games against the Camp Funston all stars at the baseball field in Army City. |
1918, 7/14 | Community House dedicated as recreation building for the military. Built with funds from Rotary Club and the city. |
1918 | Sixty thousand men stationed at Cam Funston. |
1918 | Manhattan adopts prohibition against sale or free distribution of cigarettes. |
1918 | First community swimming pool, privately owned, opens at Pierre and 4th Street. |
1919, 4/10 | Riley County Bar Association founded. |
1919 | New Junior High School opened at Poyntz and 9th Street next to High School. |
1919, 10/13 | New Old Peoples' Building dedicated at the Rebekah-Odd Fellows Home of Kansas at Eureka Lake. |
1920 | Manhattan population 7,485; Kansas State Agricultural College enrollment 3,017. |
1921 | Huge K on Prospect Hill built by Kansas State Agricultural College engineering students. |
1921, May | Special election passes for a water softening and purification plant. |
1922 | 3,500 motor licenses sold in Riley County. |
1923 | West wing of Kansas State Agricultural College Memorial Stadium built. |
1924 | East wing of Memorial Stadium built. |
1924 | Manhattan Business College closes its doors. |
1925 | Telephone cables on 4th Street go from overhead to underground. |
1925 | Work starts on telephone exchange building at 4th Street and Humboldt. |
1925 | J.L. Johns opens creamery on 3rd Street; produces first pasteurized milk in Manhattan. |
1926 | 150 room Wareham Hotel completed. |
1926 | Eugene University of Eugene, Oregon (later becomes Manhattan Christian College) opens. |
1928 | Manhattan trolley system discontinued. |
1928, July | First time Fire Chief installed in Manhattan. |
1930, 9/18 | Local team plays the Kansas City Monarchs. |
1930 | Concrete S added to Prospect Hill. |
1930 | Junior Chamber of Commerce established. |
1930 | Kansas State Agricultural College enrollment 4,800. |
1930 | Manhattan has two railroads, 3 bus lines, two daily and two weekly newspapers, two hospitals, four theaters and 222 rooms in three hotels. |
1931, 3/9 | Kansas State Agricultural College name changed to Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science (K.S.C.). |
1931, March | First Girl Scout troop established in Manhattan. |
1933, July | Sunset Zoo established. |
1935, 6/4 | Flood water extends 13 blocks west from the rivers and surrounds a third of Manhattan homes. |
1936 | Griffith Field built as Works Progress Administration project. |
1936 | Charlotte Swift Hospital purchased by Sisters of St. Joseph. Name changed to St. Mary Hospital. |
1937 | Pillsbury Drive bridge taken out by 1935 flood. |
1938 | New white way street lights downtown. |
1938, November | 20,000 attend Kansas State College 75th Anniversary. |
1939, 7/15 | Jesse Owens appeared at Griffith Field in Manhattan. |
1939 | City Park and Douglass swimming pools built through Work Progression Administration projects. |
1940, 11/22 | Airport is dedicated 110 acres. |
1940 | Population Manhattan 11,659; Kansas State College enrollment 4,910. |
1942 | Two community centers open for the military, known in 2007 as Douglass Center and the Community House. The Douglass Center was for African American troops, the Community House for white troops. |
1944 | Kansas State College student numbers drop to 3,786 because of World War II. |
1944 | Community Chest of Manhattan established. |
1946 | Housing units for veterans set up in Goodnow Park. |
1946 | Viking Manufacturing plant built, 1635 Yuma. Ag Press, as of 2007. |
1949 | Riley County completes its first Zoning Master Plan. |
1950, 2/19 | Tower for new radio station, KMAN, erected. The station began broadcasting on June 4th. |
1950, 7/1 | Hail storm with three to four inch stones causes significant damage to Riley County. |
1950 | Airport runways expanded and lengthened. |
1950 | Kansas State College enrollment is 6,867. |
1950, 12/9 | New Kansas State College Wildcat Field House opened, later named Ahern Field House. First basketball game played: K-State 66, Utah 56. |
1950 | Manhattan population 19,056; K-State enrollment 5,907. |
1951 | Riley Count institutes first zoning outside of the City of Manhattan. |
1951 | City government changes to City Manager/five member commission. |
1951, June | Worst flood in city's history covers 220 blocks and puts six feet of water downtown, causing $20 million in damage. |
1951 | Luckey High School opened. |
1952 | Airport runways lengthened and strengthened. |
1952 | Construction begins on Tuttle Creek Dam. |
1952 | Manhattan selected as All American City for recovery efforts after '51 flood. |
1952 | Sears store built on southeast corner of 4th and Houston. |
1953 | Scheduled airline service started by Continental. |
1954, 6/10 | Riley County Hospital opens with 100 beds. |
1954 | Kansas Farm Bureau opens new state office headquarters on Anderson Avenue. |
1955 | Manhattan celebrates its Centennial. Johnny Kaw legend invented by George Filinger. |
1955 | Construction resumes on Tuttle Creek Damn after controversy stopped construction in 1953. |
1955 | Present City Hall/Fire Station built; expansion in 1997-1998. |
1955 | First Infantry Division (established in 1917) moves to Fort Riley. |
1956 | The agency that became Pawnee Mental Health Services begins operation in Riley County. Two agencies merged to form Pawnee Mental Health. |
1957, 9/28 | University Heights housing addition established. |
1957, 2/7 | Rogers addition to Manhattan established. |
1957 | Flood control levee system completed; city's cost $169,000. |
1958 | Community Chest of Manhattan becomes the United Fund of Manhattan. |
1958, 2/7 | Irwin Army Hospital dedicated. |
1959, 7/4 | Closure Ceremony at Tuttle Creek Dam site. The course of the Blue River redirected through Tuttle Creek control tower outlet tubes. |
1959 | Kansas State College becomes Kansas State University. |
1960, 2/29 | Randolph Post Office closed for the building of Tuttle Creek. |
1960 | Manhattan population 19,370; Kansas State University enrollment 7,500. |
1961, 6/24 | St. Mary Hospital opens, 104 beds. |
1962 | Riley County Hospital's name changed to Memorial Hospital. |
1962 | Airport adds new runway. |
1963, 6/1 | Tuttle Creek Dam dedicated. |
1963, 12/19 | Manhattan Country Club fire destroys the clubhouse. |
1963 | Westloop Shopping Center established. |
1963 | Manhattan Medical Center established. |
1963 | New Post Office built at 5th and Leavenworth. |
1964 | Plans announced to add 49,500 acres to Fort Riley, nearly doubling its size. |
1965 | Gillett Hotel, northwest corner of 4th and Houston, razed. |
1965 | CiCo Park established by city, county and board of education. |
1965, Summer | First Infantry Division, Fort Riley, deployed to Viet Nam. |
1966 | Sunrise Cemetery established. |
1966 | New Kansas Power & Light building built on southwest corner of 5th and Poyntz. Later, location of Chamber of Commerce offices. |
1966, April | Manhattan Meals on Wheels established. |
1966, 6/8 | Manhattan/Riley County tornado injured 58, did $8 million damage, 36 homes destroyed, 136 damaged. |
1967 | Riley County Fire District organized. |
1968 | City's first industrial park (195 acres) established; attracts McCall Pattern Company. |
1968 | Kansas State University Football Stadium built. |
1968 | Manhattan becomes a First Class City. |
1968 | Riley County builds its first rural fire stations. |
1969 | New public library built at Juliette and Poyntz; later expanded in 1981 and 1997-98. |
1969 | Manhattan Country Club burns for the second time. |
1970, April | First Division returns to Fort Riley from Viet Nam, 3rd Brigade to Germany. |
1970 | Manhattan population 27,575; K-State enrollment 13,204. |
1971, April | Last passenger train west makes final stop in Manhattan. |
1974 | Manhattan Police Department and Riley County Sheriff become Riley County Law Enforcement Agency. |
1974 | Riley County institutes first county wide subdivision zoning regulations. |
1975, 6/29 | Fire at 301-307 Poyntz destroys half a city block. Replaced by Burger King at corner of 3rd & Poyntz. |
1976 | City adds 79.53 acres to industrial park. |
1976 | Candlewood residential development begins. |
1978 | City turns down request to build west side mall on the Johns tract on Seth Child Road. |
1978 | United Fund of Manhattan becomes the United Way of Riley County. |
1979 | City begins study for downtown redevelopment, eventually to culminate in construction of Manhattan Town Center. |
1980 | Manhattan population 32,844. |
1981 | Leonardville votes to build a new city offices, shop, fire station and community room. |
1981 | Leonardville Senior Citizens group is organized. |
1981, 4/7 | Northfield housing addition established. |
1981 - 2009
1981, 8/20 | Knoxberry housing addition established. |
1984 | Union Pacific Freight depot closes. |
1986, 6/6 | Groundbreaking for Manhattan Town Center mall. |
1986 | $2.7 million Quality of Life bond issue passed. It included parks, linear trail, swimming pool and animal shelter. |
1986, 4/27 | The Bala Park officially opened. The Bala Park is privately owned by the Williams family and enjoyed by the public through their permission. |
1986 | Luckey High School in Manhattan closes. |
1987 | Riley County Comprehensive Land Use adopted. |
1987, October | Manhattan Town Center opened with over 40 shops and two anchors, J.C. Penney's and Dillard's. |
1990 | Manhattan population 37,712. |
1990 | City expanded from 6,290 acres to present 9,319 with annexation of Grand Mere, Colbert Hills, Sargent, Wyndham Heights and Meadowland additions. |
1990 | Riley County Household Hazardous Waste program receives the first Household Hazardous Waste permit issued by the State of Kansas. |
1993 | Flood damages east and southern edges of Manhattan, Hunters Island and Stagg Hill Golf Course. |
1993 | Tuttle Creek spillway gates release record 60,000 cubic feet of water per second. |
1993 | K-State football, under Coach Bill Snyder, winds nine games, including the Copper Bowl and goes on to "bowl" out the decade. |
1994 | City of Manhattan annexes KSU Campus. |
1994-96 | Expansion of railhead at Fort Riley increases capability to load 400 cars a day. |
1996, 4/10 | First Division Headquarters moved to Germany from Fort Riley. |
1996, October | Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art opens at K-State campus. |
1996, 6/25 | Mercy Health Center established, merger of St. Mary and Memorial Hospitals. |
1996 | New bridge built over the Kansas River to replace 1936 Pillsbury Drive viaduct. |
1998 | Population of Manhattan 41,318. |
1998, October | Revamped and enlarged City Hall opened. |
1999, 6/5 | Fort Riley once again becomes a Division Headquarters with the reactivation of the 24th Infantry Division Mechanized. The 24th Infantry Division Mechanized is the Headquarters for three enhanced Separate Brigades of the Army National Guard. |
2005 | Twin Valley Telephone acquires 13 Sprint exchanges, including service in Leonardville, Riley, Bala and Randolph in Riley County. Twin Valley is a family owned and locally operated company, since 1947. |
2006, 1/23 | President George W. Bush is a Landon Lecturer. |
2006, 4/18 | Vice President Dick Cheney visits Fort Riley. |
2006, 8/11 | First Infantry Division headquarters returns to Fort Riley. Major General Kenneth W. Hunzeker, Commander, with General Carter Ham to take charge as Post Commander soon thereafter. |
2006, 8/26 | Kevin Ingram installed as the seventh President of Manhattan Christian College. |
2006, 9/8 | John Hofmeister, President of Shell Oil and a K-State graduate, presents a Landon Lecture. |
2006, 11/9 | Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfield is a Landon Lecturer. |
2006 | Downtown Redevelopment: Fourth Street Redevelopment begun by Dial Corporation. Best Buy opens. |
2007, 7/31 | General Durbin becomes commanding General of Fort Riley. He is also commander of the First Infantry Division. |
2007, 11/6 | New headquarters for the First Infantry Division ribbon cutting. |
2007, 11/11 | Dedication of the new Cemetery at Fort Riley. |
2007, 12/10 | Ice storm knocks out power to much of Riley County, damages trees and utility lines. |
2007 | New Riley County shops open at 6215 Tuttle Creek Boulevard, northwest of Manhattan. |
2007 | Brad Schoen appointed Director of Riley County Police Department by the Riley County Law Board. Steve French served as interim Director after the retirement of Mike Watson in June 2007. |
2008, 6/2 | Softball-size hail falls in Riley County in a swath from Ogden to Manhattan, causing severe damage to property. |
2008, 6/11 | Tornado destroys homes and businesses and damages many buildings, including some K-State buildings. |
2009, 4/15 | Major General Vince Brooks becomes commanding General of Fort Riley. |
2009, 6/15 | Kirk H. Schulz becomes President of Kansas State University. Selected in February 2009 and inaugurated September 23, 2009. |