University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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Lawrence Lawrence may not impress you when you first arrive here. Almost every highway entrance into the city crawls through somewhat unattractive business or industrial districts. Except for a couple of rolling hills, the town is flat. But stay awhile. If you ' re like others, the longer you stay here, the more Lawrence grows on you. There ' s much to Lawrence besides the beautiful campus of the University of Kansas atop Mr. Oread. There are the tree-lined boulevards, some of them cobblestone, and many of them provide pathways to old, Victorian houses. And there ' s a busy, occasionally bristling downtown area, which seems be a miniature version of an urban downtown. Like most downtowns, Law- rence ' s is changing. But some good things remain. The bars. They undergo facial and title changes, and new crowds make them their hangout every year. But the bars still remain, faithfully providing 3.2 brew from the tap. Then there ' s the old, hardy and dedicated fishermen under the Kaw River Bridge. A new bridge structure spans the muddy Kaw, asserting more evidence of change. In a nutshell, the history of the city of Lawrence started in 1854, seven years before Kansas joined the Union. Bos- tonian Amos Lawrence was the man a group of New England settlers named the town after The city paid dearly tor its location near the border in a free-slave state conflict during the Civil War. In 1 865, the University was founded, and the city ' s industry developed around education, agriculture and manufacturing. 120

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