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Wichita served as a trading center and meeting place for 11,000 years for nomadic people, but it wasn't until 1863 that the first permanent settlement of Wichita Indians was recorded.
Jesse Chisholm came to Wichita first in about 1863, leading a party of sportsmen and adventurers here to hunt game.
1864 J. R. Mead became the first white settler when he opened a trading post on the site of Wichita.
The beginnings of the community date to 1868, when J.R. Mead founded a trading post on the banks of the confluence of two rivers, the Arkansas and the Little Arkansas.
By 1870, Wichita was incorporated as a city, and a destination for cattle drives from Texas from whence it derived its nickname, "Cowtown." When the cattle trade moved west to take advantage of the construction of rail lines, Wichita fell on hard times.
1872 A branch of the Santa Fe Railroad arrived at Wichita, and the town "busted-wide-open." A sign was erected at the outskirts of town proclaiming: "Everything goes in Wichita."
So rapid was the population growth that in late 1872, Wichita became a city of the second class.
In 1872 alone, 350,000 head of cattle were sold in Wichita at a value of more than $2 million, a princely sum in those days.
But, by 1880, the city had rebounded with a growing economy in agriculture and manufacturing.
The first Board of Trade was opened in 1880.
1890's The grain from these farms more than equaled the wealth formerly brought by cattle, and Wichita became a trade and milling center.
1895 Wichita State University in Wichita was founded as Fairmount College.
W.C. Coleman, a name synonymous worldwide with camping and outdoor recreational equipment, produced his first Coleman lantern in Wichita in 1914.
With the trade groundwork firmly established, manufacturing and agriculture industries thrived in the late teens and early 1920s.
1925 Walter Anderson, Wichita, one of the founders of the White Castle eating houses and known as the "Hamburger King," operated 22 White Castles.
In 1958, Frank and Dan Carney borrowed $600 from their mother and established their first Pizza Hut in Wichita in a small red-bricked building.
1961 Today Wichita is known as the "Air Capital of America."
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