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Coronado Heights

Coronado Heights, near Lindsborg, Kansas, is alleged to be near the place where Coronado gave up his search for the seven cities of gold and turned around to return to Mexico.

Coronado Heights is one of a chain of seven sandstone bluffs in the Dakota Formation and rises approximately 300 feet. (Which doesn't seem like much but out in the flat portion of the States seems much higher.)

In 1915, a professor at Bethany College in Lindsborg found chain mail from Spanish armor at an excavation site a few miles southwest of the hill, and a colleague promoted the name of Coronado Heights for the hill.

This stone shelter resembling a castle was built on top of the hill in 1936 as a project of the Works Progress Administration.
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Rettch

There are great views from the top of the fortress and picnic tables made of the same material as the fortress. Unfortunately, the area has not been well maintained and this once beautiful site is kinda junky. The views are still great from the peak of this Kansas "mountain."

Raaike

Toto, it must be wonderful to go and see there. :-))) ♥

pumpkinhead

First lighthouses....now CASTLES??? Way to go WPA!

Toto

My first time up was just a few years ago, Iris. J and I were out in Lindsborg for a car rally and taking our antiques up the hill to the castle was one of the challenges. Great fun and great view from the top.

irisriver

I was in this area when I was a little kid. Amazing place! Grins!☺

Toto

It is at that, Beekay. Can you hear the gents back in DC - "What can the WPA build in western Kansas." "Why not a castle on a hill top?"

Beekay

Cool!
It's a very whimsical structure for the Works Progress Administration to build!

Toto

You're welcome, Charlie. It's out of the way, up a long gravel road, but at the top you get a commanding view of the prairie.

Thank you for the background information.

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