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Junction City, KS - History
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Welcome to the Junction City Home page. The Junction City Home page provides as much information as possible on Junction City. Knowing Junction City’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Junction City’s Home page, you will also find Junction City’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Junction City has a population of 22616. 53.3% of Junction City’s inhabitants are Male, and 46.7 are female. 58.9% of Junction City is married and 44.5% own their own home. The Average Home price is $139,042, and the average rent is $880. Household median income in Junction City is $52,159, and the individual median income is $30,813. Junction City’s Ethnic is the following: White(60.1%), Black(20.8%), Hispanic(16.7%), Multiple(10.1%), Asian(3.4%), Other(3.3%), Native(1.2%), Pacific(1.1%).
Junction City is so named from its position at the confluence of the Smoky Hill and Republican rivers, which forms the Kansas River.In 1854, Andrew J. Mead of New York of the Cincinnati-Manhattan Company, Free Staters connected to the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company planned a community there called Manhattan (there was also a discussion to call it New Cincinnati).
When the steamship Hartford delivering the immigrants could not reach the community because of low water on the Kansas River, the Free Staters settled 20 miles east in what today is Manhattan, Kansas. The community was renamed Millard City for Captain Millard of the Hartford on October 3, 1855. It was renamed briefly Humboldt in 1857 by local farmers and renamed again later that year to Junction City.
It was formally incorporated in 1859.In 1923, John R. Brinkley established radio station KFKB (which adopted the slogan ‘’Kansas First, Kansas Best’’) in nearby Milford, Kansas, using a 1 kW transmitter. It was one of the first radio stations in Kansas. Brinkley used the station to espouse his belief that goat testicles could be implanted in men to enhance their virility.Among Junction City's residents is film director Kevin Wilmott, whose movies, including Ninth Street, are set in Junction City.
Ninth Street specifically refers to a bawdy area of the community that was frequented by Fort Riley soldiers in the 1960s. In the 1980s a major initiative was undertaken to clean up the Ninth St. area.Timothy McVeigh rented the Ryder truck he used in the Oklahoma City bombing from an auto body shop in Junction City.
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