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Tux Loves to Read CityofTopekaKS 2 views Tux finds some good reading material at the Topeka Library
Tux Flys CityofTopekaKS 30 views Who said Penguins can't fly!!!
Municipal Court CityofTopekaKS 2 views If you owe money to the municipal court, now is the perfect time to pay off your debt or arrange for a payment plan as no collection fee will be added.
Tux Rides the Bus CityofTopekaKS 36 views They're Coming
Tux Valentine's Day CityofTopekaKS 16 views They're Coming!
Tux the Lifeguard CityofTopekaKS 20 views They're Coming!
Tux Loves Fish CityofTopekaKS 18 views They're Coming!
Song movie 2011 CityofTopekaKS 70 views
City of Topeka - State of the City 2011 CityofTopekaKS 178 views Thank you for watching the City of Topeka's YouTube Channel and this special presentation of The State of the City 2011. Special thanks to: The State Historical Society, ...
New Adaptive Traffic Signal System - Topeka, KS CityofTopekaKS 1,711 views Real-Time Adaptive Traffic Signal System -- "Green Light Tunnel" Motorists along 21st Street between Fairlawn & Wanamaker roads might have noticed more green traffic light...

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Topeka is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Shawnee County. It is situated along the Kansas River in the central part of Shawnee County, located in northeast Kansas, in the Central United States. The population was 122,377 at the 2000 census, and it was estimated to be 122,647 in the 2007 census. The Topeka Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Shawnee, Jackson, Jefferson, Osage, and Wabaunsee counties, had an estimated population of 226,268 in the year 2003. The city is well known for the landmark United States Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, which overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson and declared segregation in public schools on account of race to be unconstitutional. Three ships of the US Navy have been named USS Topeka in honor of the city.
Topeka means "to dig good potatoes" in the languages of the Kansa and the Ioway. The potato referred to is the prairie potato, Psoralea esculenta, a perennial herb which is an important food for many Native Americans. As a placename, Topeka was first recorded in 1826 as the Kansa name for what is now called the Kansas River. Topeka's founders chose the name in 1855 because it "was novel, of Indian origin and euphonious of sound. The city, laid out in 1854, was one of the Free-State towns founded by Eastern antislavery men immediately after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill. In 1857, Topeka was chartered as a city.

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