City of Governors - Olathe, Kansas 150th Birthday Celebration

Olathe, Kansas and the next of the twelve boot sculptures is called the "City of Governors". These boot sculptures are celebrating Olathe's 150^th Birthday.

This boot sculpture was designed by Elaine Lierly Jones from Gardner, Kansas and it's display celebrates the five governors how lived in Olathe. Thus the City of Governors! Detail is provided of these men in realistic, nostalgic portraits. At the lower section of the boot provides portraits of street scenes of the early days of Olathe. In 1961, John Anderson, Jr, the Governor of Kansas, outfitted the other 49 governors with the famous Hyer boots made here in Olathe. He is featured on the front of this boot sculpture.

This sculpture is displayed on the corner of Kansas Avenue and Santa Fe on the west side of the Olathe City Hall. The City of Olathe is the sponsor of this boot sculpture.

Olathe is deep in western history with the coming together of the Oregon and Santa Fe Trails, the birth place of the western cowboy boot, the Kansas State School for the Deaf, is the national headquarters of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and is the county seat for Johnson County.

Olathe is also the home of Garmin Industries, the GPS device for everyone!

"Partnerships" is the mantra and method this community uses to pursue its goals. It doesn't take forever to get things done in Olathe, because business, government, and private citizens work together to make things happen.

• Population: 122,000
• Land area: 54.2 square miles
• County: Johnson
• Elevation: 1040 feet
• Zip codes: 66061, 66062, 66063

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Olathe, Kansas
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