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

Lenexa has a population of 54804. 49.4% of Lenexa’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.6 are female. 57% of Lenexa is married and 58.7% own their own home. The Average Home price is $278,623, and the average rent is $1,183. Household median income in Lenexa is $90,487, and the individual median income is $47,631. Lenexa’s Ethnic is the following: White(83.5%), Hispanic(7.5%), Black(6.5%), Asian(4.4%), Multiple(4.4%), Other(0.9%), Native(0.4%).


Twelve years before the town of Lenexa was platted, James Butler Hickok staked a claim on 160 acres (65 ha) at what is now the corner of 83rd and Clare Road. Filed in 1857, the claim was not far from the Kansas River, and was 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Westport, Missouri, and the start of the Santa Fe Trail.


The trail meandered through this area on its way to Santa Fe, New Mexico. On March 22, 1858, Hickok was elected one of the first four constables of nearby Monticello Township. Later, Hickok became a scout for the Free-State Army, a sharpshooter and eventually, one of the most famous folk heroes of the American West, Wild Bill Hickok. At about the same time as Hickok filed his claim, a census of the Shawnee Indians living in the area was being taken, and one of the residents listed was Na-Nex-Se Blackhoof.


She was the widow of Chief Blackhoof, the second signer of the 1854 treaty that ceded 1,600,000 acres (650,000 ha) of the Kansas Shawnee Indian reservation to the United States government. In 1865, the Kansas and Neosho Valley Railroad was organized to take advantage of favorable new land laws. It later changed its name to Missouri River, Ft.


Scott and Gulf Railroad, and in 1869 purchased a right-of-way from C.A. Bradshaw in the area that is now Lenexa, with the stipulation that a depot be built on the property. Bradshaw also sold 10.5 acres (4.2 ha) to Octave Chanute, a railroad civil engineer, who platted the town in 1869. Legend states that the first town name proposed was "Bradshaw", but Bradshaw modestly refused and the name "Lenexa", a derivation of the name Na-Nex-Se, the name of Shawnee Chief Thomas Blackhoof's wife, was adopted.


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