Area Attractions and Information
The agents at Gold Key Realtors are sold on Wichita.
Wichita has one the most affordable markets in the United States.
Wichita, was named after the Wichita Native American tribe that inhabited the area, was established as a trading post in 1864 at the confluence of the Arkansas River and the Little Arkansas River. The first settlers were Jesse Chisholm and James Mead. Chisholm pioneered the Chisholm Trail in 1865 when Mead sent him Southwest to trade with the Wichita tribe for buffalo hides. It soon became a major center for cattle drives from Texas to Wichita where beef could be shipped east by railroad.
Today, Wichita is the largest city in Kansas. We are known as the “Air Capitol of the World” with five aircraft manufacturing firms:
| Boeing |
www.boeing.com |
| Spirit Aero Systems |
www.spiritaero.com |
| Hawker Beechcraft |
www.hawkerbeechcraft.com |
| Cessna Aircraft |
www.cessna.com |
| Bombardier Aerospace |
www.bombardier.com |
| Big Dog Motorcycles |
www.bigdogmotorcycles.com |
| Cargill Meet Solutions | www.cargill.com |
| Case New Holland Wichita |
www.chn.com |
| Coleman Company |
www.coleman.com |
| ICM Inc. |
www.imcinc.com |
| Johnson Controls-York Wichita |
www.jci.com |
| Kice Industries |
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| Koch Industries | www.kochindustries.com |
| Mid-Continental Cabinetry |
www.norcraftcompanies.com |
| Pioneer Balloon Company |
www.qualatex.com |
| Wichita State University |
www.wichita.edu |
| Friends Univeristy |
www.friends.edu |
| Newman University |
www.newmanu.edu |
| Sedgwick County Zoo |
www.scz.org |
| Tanganyika Wildlife Park |
www.twpark.org |
| Old Town | www.oldtownwichita.com |
| Botanica, The Wichita Gardens |
www.botanica.org |
| Great Plains Nature Center |
www.gpnc.com |
| Wichita Symphony Orchestra | www.wso.org |
| Wichita Thunder | www.wichitathunder.com |
| Wichita Wingnuts |
www.wichitawingnuts.com |
| Exploration Place |
www.exploration.org |
| Great Plains Transportation Museum |
www.gptm.us |
| Kansas African- American Museum |
www.tkaam.org |
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Kansas Aviation Museum |
www.kansasaviationmuseum.org |
| Mid-American All-Indian Center |
www.theindiancenter.org |
| Museums of World Treasures |
www.worldtreasures.org |
| Old Cowtown Museum |
www.oldcowtown.org |
| Kansas Sports Hall of Fame |
www.kshof.org |
| Wichita- Sedgwick Historical Museum |
www.wichitahistory.org |
| Wichita Visitor Information Center |
www.visitwichita.org |
| Beaumont Hotel Bed & Breakfast |
www.hotelbeaumontks.com |
| Kansas Cosmosphere & Space Center |
www.cosmo.org |
| Kauffman Museum |
www.bethelks.edu/kauffman |
| Lake Afton Park |
www.sedgwickcounty.org/lake_afton |
| Lake Afton Public Observitory |
www.wichita.edu/lapo |
| Underground Salt Museum |
www.undergroundmuseum.org |
| Yoder, Kansas |
www.yoderkansas..com |
