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Home of the World's Largest Ball of Twine!
The first building in Cawker City was a house
built by E. H. Cawker in 1872. The town was incorporated on March
20, 1874, and grew quickly. Soon Cawker City had mills, banks,
churches, an opera house and a city auditorium. By 1880, the town's
population was at its peak, at 2,000.
After its peak, the population slowly began to
fall. Water was installed in the town in 1930. The High School still
standing today was built in 1948. Soon, as happened to many Kansas
towns, the last passenger train came to Cawker City in 1960. Today,
Cawker City is a small town with around 600 people, but still has
all of the qualities you would expect in a town.
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