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We would like to provide the residents of  Blue Rapids  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Blue Rapids Home page. The Blue Rapids Home page provides as much information as possible on Blue Rapids. Knowing Blue Rapids’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Blue Rapids’s Home page, you will also find Blue Rapids’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Blue Rapids has a population of 1071. 45.5% of Blue Rapids’s inhabitants are Male, and 54.5 are female. 54.5% of Blue Rapids is married and 82.3% own their own home. The Average Home price is $63,765, and the average rent is $615. Household median income in Blue Rapids is $45,278, and the individual median income is $24,813. Blue Rapids’s Ethnic is the following: White(96.1%), Multiple(3.5%), Black(0.4%), Hispanic(0.2%).


The first endeavor to establish a town below the junction of the rivers, in 1857, failed due to misfortunes of two of the three participants. No further attempt to utilize the impressive water power was made until 1869–1870, when a colony of about 50 families from Genesee County, New York moved in, purchased land and water power rights, and began establishing a community.


The Blue Rapids Town Company was formed, and by the end of 1870 the population was about 250. In 1872, Blue Rapids was incorporated as a city of third class under the statutes of Kansas.Among the first projects in 1870 were a stone dam and a wrought iron bridge built on the Big Blue River. A hydroelectric power plant was then added to provide power for manufacturing and for the town.


The power plant was destroyed by a flood in 1903. In the late 19th century and early 20th century there were four gypsum mines in the area. The population peaked around 1910 at over 1,750. The public library, built in 1875, is the oldest library west of the Mississippi in continuous operation in the same building.Blue Rapids was the birthplace of the pancreatic cancer drug Streptozotocin.


The bacterium from which the drug is derived was discovered in the late 1950s in a soil sample taken from "an uncultivated sandy soil in a grassland region" at Blue Rapids. Blue Rapids claims to be the smallest town in the U.S. to have hosted a national league baseball game. On October 24, 1913, more than 3,000 fans watched the Chicago White Sox and New York Giants play a world tour exhibition game on the local ball field at Riverside Park that is still in use today.


Blue Rapids was also home to minor league baseball. The 1910 Blue Rapids team played as members of the Class D level Eastern Kansas League.In 2001, Blue Rapids became the site of a new NOAA Weather Radio transmitter, KZZ67, to provide weather and emergency information from the National Weather Service in Topeka, Kansas to residents of north-central and northeast Kansas. In May 2012, "The Monument to the Ice Age" was dedicated in the town square.


It features descriptions of Ice Age times, continental glaciers, and Sioux Quartzite glacial erratics -the oldest rocks in Kansas. The main reason for this Ice Age Monument is that Blue Rapids was founded in a place with abundant natural resources brought or created by the glaciers of the Ice Age over 10,000 years ago.


The namesake rapids on the Blue River that were harnessed to power early industries, the sand and gravel deposits used for construction and roads, and the rich soils for agriculture are all here because of the Ice Age glaciers. The Monument honors this ancient geological heritage. Glacial erratic that was deposited in the glaciated region of Kansas during the Pleistocene era.


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