Prairie City

Prairie City may refer to some places in the United States:

  • Prairie City, California, south of Folsom
  • Prairie City, Illinois
  • Prairie City, Indiana
  • Prairie City, Iowa
  • Prairie City, Kansas, a ghost town in Douglas County, Kansas
  • Prairie City, Oregon
  • Prairie City, South Dakota

Famous quotes containing the words prairie and/or city:

    “To the cry of “follow Mormons and prairie dogs and find good land,” Civil War veterans flocked into Nebraska, joining a vast stampede of unemployed workers, tenant farmers, and European immigrants.”
    —For the State of Nebraska, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “Arrive at New Orleans, a city of ships, steamers, flatboats, rafts, mud, fog, filth, stench, and a mixture of races and tongues. Cholera, “some.” [At] Planters’ Hotel. Mem:—Never get caught in a cheap tavern in a strange city.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)