
Atchison is a
city situated along the
Missouri River in the eastern part of
Atchison County, located in northeast
Kansas, in the
Central United States. The population was 10,232 at the
2000 census, and it was estimated to be 10,154 in the year 2006.
[3] It is the
county seat and most populous city of Atchison County. The city is named in honor of
David Rice Atchison, United States senator from Missouri, and was the original eastern terminus of the
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad.
Atchison was the birthplace of aviatrix
Amelia Earhart: the Amelia Earhart Festival held each July annually attracts an estimated 30,000–50,000 people. Atchison is also the home of
Benedictine College, a small Catholic liberal-arts college. Atchison is often called one of the most haunted places in America, due to the city's ghost-story heritage, featured in the 1997 book, "Haunted Kansas," written by Lisa Hefner Heitz, and published by University Press of Kansas.
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