Emporia is a city in and the county seat of Lyon County, Kansas,
United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 24,916.
Emporia lies between Topeka and Wichita at the intersection of U.S.
Route 50 with Interstates 335 and 35 on the Kansas Turnpike. Emporia
is also a college town, home to Emporia State University and Flint
Hills Technical College.Located on upland prairie, Emporia was founded
in 1857, drawing its name from ancient Carthage, a place known in
history as a prosperous center of commerce.In 1864 the Union Pacific
Railway, Southern Branch (later incorporated into the
Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad) received land grants to build from
Fort Riley to Emporia. The road eventually reached Emporia in 1869,
becoming the first railroad to serve the burgeoning town. In July
1870, a second railroad, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
reached Emporia, and in the years following the American Civil War the
city became a booming railroad hub. In 1888, railroad executive and
educator John Byers Anderson donated his personal library to the
College of Emporia to commemorate his 50th wedding anniversary, and
his former mentee Andrew Carnegie donated additional funds to build a
library in Anderson's honor (conditioned upon the new college paying
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