Topeka, Kansas is the capital city with family-friendly attractions, history -- Civil War to Civil Rights -- and festivals throughout the year. Hotels are 20 minutes or less from Rock Chalk Park.

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Topeka, capital (1861) of Kansas, U.S., seat (1857) of Shawnee county. It lies on the Kansas River in the eastern part of the state. The city was the center of a major civil rights battle in 1954, when plaintiffs successfully challenged segregation in the city’s public schools in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.

Topeka, city, capital (1861) of Kansas, U.S., and seat (1857) of Shawnee county. Topeka lies on the Kansas River in the eastern part of the state. The name Topeka is of uncertain Indigenous origin; one interpretation is “smoky hill,” and another is “a good place to dig potatoes.”

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