Welcome to the Capitol Square is home to many markers 3 and memorials, including: seat of government Abraham statue Located in the southeast quadrant of Capitol 1 for the state of Square, this statue of was Statue of Liberty replica created by Robert Merrell Gage, who also created Kansas! We hope Located in the northwest quadrant of Capitol the nearby Pioneer Women memorial. Gage was Square, this small version of Lady Liberty was one you enjoy this born in Topeka in 1892 and attended Washburn of 200 donated by the Boy Scouts of America. College. He pursued an art career in New York self-guided tour The statues were created to celebrate the 40th and France and returned to Topeka in 1916 to anniversary of scouting in America. Boy Scouts begin the Lincoln statue, his first public of Capitol Square and that you discover across Kansas saved their pennies to finance the commission. After serving in World War I, Gage statue, reported by the Topeka State Journal to returned to teach at Washburn College your personal connection to Kansas cost between $600-$800 dollars. Governor Frank and the Kansas City Art Institute. He later history. The Capitol belongs to the people Carlson accepted the statue on April 29, 1950, became head of the sculpture department at the at a celebration including speeches by visiting University of Southern California. Gage earned of Kansas, and we invite you to enjoy it dignitaries, parades, a fighter jet fly-over, and a an Academy Award for his 1956 film,The Face of band concert on the statehouse lawn. Lincoln, which showed a wet clay bust of Lincoln, with care and respect. 2 reflecting the changes to his face during the years of his presidency. The 20 acres on which the Capitol sits was Kansas Law Enforcement Memorial donated in 1861 by Cyrus K. Holliday, founder Located in the northeast quadrant of of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. Capitol Square, this memorial was A stone fence was originally built around the dedicated on May 8, 1987, to honor Kansas Capitol to keep out farm animals. Citizens soon law enforcement officials killed in the line called for the removal of the “unsightly stone of duty. The monument is a five-point star fence” and it was replaced with a more modern circled by a ring of tablets. Each tablet “five-board pig-tight fence.” bears the names of those who have lost Instead of uniform rows of trees, the informal their lives in the line of duty since landscape design of Capitol Square is the result Kansas statehood. The memorial of an Arbor Day celebration on April 22, 1875. was built with money Topeka Mayor Thomas J. Anderson invited the from private donations. citizens to plant a tree on the Capitol grounds. More than 500 trees were planted that day. Some trees were too close together and had to be thinned out and many others died that summer during a drought. Subsequent plantings have maintained the informal charm of the trees. N 8TH AVENUE Kansas State Capitol 4 nderground parking garage entrance Pioneer Woman Memorial ircle drie drop off Located in the southwest quadrant of Capitol JACKSON Statue of Law Liberty Enforcement Square, this statue was dedicated on May 11, Memorial Visitor enter 1937. The memorial represents the Kansas Walk entrance of Honor confident and watchful pioneer Kansas Walk Dwight D. of Honor mother protecting her Eisenhower W E children. It was donated by the Kansas Pioneer Women’s 6

Association, founded by apitol women who came to Kansas as pioneers or were daughters of early settlers. During Abraham Lincoln the organization’s Pioneer Woman Veterans Memorial 1927 membership HARRISON and Walk drive, anyone who Kansas Walk Kansas Walk of Honor of Honor contributed $1 or more was granted Capitol Square Walking Tour membership. Robert Merrell Gage created this 10TH AVENUE S work (see Abraham Lincoln memorial). 6 Kansas Walk of Honor 5 The Walk of Honor was begun in 2011 by Kansas Veterans Memorial and Walk Governor Sam Brownback. The walk features Located on the pavement south of the Capitol, people who have contributed on a state or national this memorial was dedicated on Veteran’s Day, level and have significant connections to Kansas. November 11, 1997. The memorial is modeled The plaque for Senator Bob Dole, the first honoree, after the obelisk erected in the Medal of Honor is in the southeast. Grove at the Freedom’s Foundation in Valley 7 Forge, Pennsylvania. The site was chosen because of the close proximity of the four Freedom Trees Dwight D. Eisenhower statue dedicated in 1973 to honor Kansas POW-MIAs. Located on the northwest quadrant of Capitol Funding for this memorial Square, the statue was dedicated on October 22, came from businesses and 2018. Recast from the sculpture in the National Statuary Hall by Jim Brothers of Lawrence, the private donors, including YOUR KANSAS members of the Kansas statue was donated by several Kansans to honor STORIES American Legion the 34th President of the who called OUR HISTORICAL and Auxiliary. Kansas home. HISTORY SOCIETY KANSAS STATE CAPITOL Kansas State Capitol • SW 8th and SW Van Buren Topeka KS 66612 • 785-296-3966 • kshs.org/capitol ©2018