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Kansas Collection Photo/Special to the Journal-World
Lawrence residents paraded through downtown to celebrate the city’s semi-centennial. “By 1904, Lawrence had gone through 30 years of some pretty slow growth,” said Steve Jansen, former director of the Watkins Community Museum of History. “In 1870 the population was about 8,300; by 1900 it was 10,500. That’s not much growth.”
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