Cherryvale, Kansas
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10miles West of CherryvaleElk City Reservoir offers a wide variety of outdoor recreation and forms a lake featuring a shore line nearly 50 miles long, containing over 4,500 acres of water and 12,000... continue
5miles East of CherryvaleBig Hill Lake has a surface area of 1,240... continue
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Cherryvale Cemeteries
Cherryvale's three cemeteries and two rural cemeteries abound with local history and genealogy information. 1869 Fairview Cemetery, Northeast of town on Olive Street. P.C. Bowen set aside 10
Cherryvale, KS Cemeteries
Frank Bellamy Home and Burial
As a student in Cherryvale Central High School, Frank Bellamy authored the Pledge of Allegiance and brought it into national focus as a winner in a 1892 national student contest. The pledge was first officially used in a national celebration coinciding with the opening of the World'
Cherryvale, KS Famous People
Bloody Bender Family 1871-1873
Ruthless Keepers of the Devil's Inn "Near here are the Bender Mounds, named for the infamous Bender family, John, his wife, son, and daughter Kate, who settled here in 1871
Cherryvale, KS Notables
Vivian Vance Birthplace
I Love Lucy fans know Vivian Vance as Lucy's neighbor and cohort "Ethel Mertz." Born Vivian Roberta Jones in Cherryvale, Kansas, on July 26 in 1909
Cherryvale, KS Famous People
Things to do near Cherryvale, KS
Genealogical Society
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