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Cedar Vale, Kansas
A Great Place To Visit,
A Greater Place to Live!!
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Secluded and peaceful with beautiful vistas, Cedar Vale, Kansas is a destination for all seasons and has a style like no other town. Enjoy a leisurely stroll along the main street and take a step into the past and experience this century old town located in Chautauqua County, Kansas, where you will find historic homes, buildings, and the Cedar Vale museum which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Nestled in the heartland of America in the Chautauqua Hills, outdoor opportunities abound. Fishing is popular on the Caney River, Cedar Creek and the many watershed lakes and ponds throughout the area. The area is also a popular hunting spot with an abundance of deer, quail, and turkey. The Cedar Vale community and surrounding countryside includes many scenic areas, camping, fishing, hunting, horsepacking, hiking, swimming, golf, rodeos, mud runs, tractor pulls, photography, and a large array of remarkable views for the artist.
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Double Rainbow Arch Bridge Old Hwy 160 1/2 east of Cedar Vale, Ks.
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Cedar Vale, Kansas is a rustic picturesque town located in the heartland of America just off of Highway 166 in the western part of Chautauqua County. The town of Cedar Vale is situated in a beautiful valley in the Chautauqua Hills. Cedar Vale was referred to as "The Gem City of the Sunflower State....Cedar Vale is the most enterprising Little City on Earth.." in the book"Dawn of the Twentieth Century 1901". Today Cedar Vale is a farming and ranching community, but is also home to many other businesses which are integral parts of the local economy. Cedar Vale is a town with beautiful old homes, churches and historic downtown buildings, a school with grades from pre-K through high school, lovely parks, swimming pool, and many more amenities. Cedar Vale hosts several events throughout the year including Spring Fling with Barbeque Cook-Off, Rodeo, Craft booths, car show, mud runs, Memorial weekend with Rodeo and Alumni reunions, Labor Day Celebration with parades, rodeo, annual egg toss, dance 5-K fun run, tractor pull, and the annual Old Fashioned Christmas Celebration with soup and chili supper, crafts, and carolers.
With the tangled rugged beauty of the Ozark Plateau beginning in southeast Kansas, most people are surprised to discover the Little Ozarks, where the landscape is full of wooded hills and winding rivers, and includes the towns of Cedar Vale, Sedan and many other southeast Kansas county towns. You are likely to see buffalo roaming the range, as well as working cattle ranches, or a cowboy on horseback along the the dusty roads. It is a rustic area where the Old West has met the New West. Much of the area looks as it did in the 1800's and the early 1900's when cowboys were driving millions of cattle up from Texas. Back then Kansas had two things no other state could offer, grass and railroads. There are beautiful countryside vistas, history filled museums and historic buildings. For the outdoor sportsman there is fishing and hunting. You'll find lots of wildlife, with turkey, quail and deer which are often seen in the countryside.
Cedar Vale, has been one of the best kept secrets in Kansas, but with the new opening of Highway 166 in 1997, it made it a short and pleasant commute to Arkansas City, Winfield, Strother Field, Wichita, Independence, Bartlesville, Ponca City, or Tulsa. Cedar Vale has adequate water for domestic, commercial or industrial use.
Take a look at our opportunities. We believe that there is no such things as strangers, just friends we haven't met yet!!
Delight in your visit to Cedar Vale and Chautauqua County Kansas, slow down, and sit a spell. Savor the sights and sounds of the area and relive a little of the past. There's nothing like it anywhere!!
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...If they ever saw a sunrise on a mountain morning
Or watched those cotton candy clouds go by
Then they'd know why I live beneath these western skies
I got peace of mind and elbow room
I love to smell the sage in bloom
Or catch a rainbow on my fishin' line
We've got county fairs and rodeos
There ain't a better place for my kids to grow
Just turn 'em loose in the western summer time
... Chris LeDoux, Western Skies
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Memorial Day Co-Ed Softball Tournament
Monday, May 28, 2012
Date/Time: May 28, 2012 10:00am-1:00pm
Location: Cedar Vale Softball Field
$125.00 a team
5/m, 5/f Teams and $25.00 deposit
Get a team togther for a fun time and help raise funds for the
Swimming Pool and the Pavilion in Hewins Park
Winners of softball tourney receive Champion t-shirts and Trophy
For more information contact:
Alicia Woods 620-330-7994
Denton Holt 580-352-1783
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Memorial Weekend 2012
Annual Alumni Banquet & Dance
Cedar Vale Alumni Association
7:00pm Banquet $12.00 per person
9:00pm Dance Hewins Park $7.00 per person
Band-Big Poppa Pump
For more info:
President: Lisa Hudson Sedan, Kansas 918-230-5658
Vice-President: Amy Driskill Wichita, Kansas 316-204-4921
Secretary: Oscar Mattocks Cedar Vale, Kansas 620-870-4087
The Cedar Vale Alumni Association will be holding a raffle to help fund the 2 scholarships that the alumni association gives to the graduating Seniors.
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Cedar Vale 17th Annual Spring Fling
April 27th, 28th, and 29th 2012
Friday, April 27th, 2012
7:00pm Women's Ranch Rodeo
10:00pm Dance
Saturday, April 28th, 2012
7:00am 5k walk/run
7:00am City wide garage sales
8:00am Cook off starts
9:00am Trail Ride
9:00am Co-Ed Sand Volleyball tournament
10:00am Car Show
10:00am Inflatables
11:00am Men's Ranch Rodeo
1:00pm Horseshoe Pitching
3:30pm Ranch Horse Competition
5:00pm BBQ Dinner
8:00pm Bull-riding
10:00pm Dance
Sunday, April 29th, 2012
11:00am Junior Rodeo
12:00pm Mud Run
All Activities at Hewins Park, Cedar Vale, Kansas
For More Information and entry forms visit the Cedar Vale Spring Fling website: www.cedarvalespringfling.com/Home_Page.php
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AROUND TOWN....
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We Have A New Look!!
Call today for a New Look For You!!
STEEL MAGNOLIA SALON
Full Service Salon
Shellac nails, manicures, pedicures
Tristan Everett -Owner
712 Cedar Street
Cedar Vale, KS 67024
Open Wednesday, Thursday & Saturday
Please Call for Appointment 620-758-5052
E-mail hair_spray04@yahoo.com
Walk-Ins Welcome
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See what others have to say about Cedar Vale, Kansas.
Wonderful article written by Kate F. Eaton about her
trip to Cedar Vale. Kate F. Eaton is a freelance copywriter
specializingin the promotion of Kansas attractions.
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| Wee Kirk Church, located south of Cedar Vale, Ks. |
The Wee Kirk of the Valley
By SB Mar. 3, 2012
We have many times in the past been fortunate to have been able to enjoy the picturesque serene countryside setting of The Wee Kirk of the Valley. Wee Kirk of the Valley was built by Lotus M. Day on his 80 acre farm 6 1/2 miles south of Cedar Vale, Kansas. This tiny chapel is on private land owned by the grandson of the landmark's builder, and is currently not accessible to the public.
The church is known as Wee Kirk is a Scottish word meaning little church and was opened to the public in 1964. Construction of the 8 by 14 foot chapel and was done in a year by Mr. Day.
After Lotus Day suffered a heart attack, he decided to retire from Day Monument Company in Arkansas City, Kansas but retained a partnership, to fulfill a long held dream to build a tiny stone church that seats 12 to represent seating for the 12 apostles.
A huge cross on "Mt. Baldy" is visible in the distance from the chapel.
As you near the chapel to the right of it you will see a gazebo/pillared shelter with a bench that overlooks a pond and the area known as Lookout Valley.
To enter, there is a gate that keeps the cattle out of the Wee Kirk yard. Across the top is written, "I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord. Psalm 122." Then a country turnstile to go through to reach the chapel. Steps on the turnstile bear the engraved message "welcome," the other side "the Lord's House is Your House." Above the stile an archway gives the chapel name, "The Wee Kirk of the Valley."
The steeple of the chapel was made of copper. Inside the tiny sanctuary, the walls are of concrete, painted and marked to resemble stone. Mr Day's used craftsmanship skills and abilities he had acquired during of a man 40 years working with masonry, marble and stone made memorials for others in his monument company......
Read more here: www.cedarvalekansas.com/3/miscellaneous3.htm
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Notice: Businesses-Cedar Vale & Chautauqua County
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What's New
August 17, 2011
Check out the blog Cia Bella Vita (It's a beautiful life)
and On The Front Porch Page
If you have an item you would like for us to add to On the Front Porch or have news or an announcement you would like posted on
the website please contact us:
www.cedarvalekansas.com/3/contactus.htm
February 22, 2011
Check out the newly added RSS News Feeds
for the Winfield Courier, Arkansas City Traveler, Wichita, Topkea Capitol Journal. We are still continuing your other favorite news feeds so, check them out as well for a variety of news.
Click here: http://www.cedarvalekansas.com/3/feeds.htm or go the left side of page and click on RSS News Feeds
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Veteran's War Memorial Monument. Thanks to all who are working hard at installing this monument to our veterans and laying the bricks.
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Veteran's War Memorial Monument
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Disclaimer: This website "Cedar Vale, Kansas" does not represent in an official capacity the town of Cedar Vale, Ks.
It is however, a website about our favorite town to hang our hats and is where our heart will always be. We have another website that we have had for several years with Cedar Vale, Ks and Chautauqua County, Ks pages. For our fans and followers, those pages will continue to be maintained at our other site http://diamondsnspurs.com/ More space and pages were needed for the Cedar Vale, Chautauqua County, Ks pages as well as other pages we wanted to add, so this website http://www.cedarvalekansas.com was created so that we could expand and add more pages.
The City of Cedar Vale has an official website and is not
associated with our websites. Visit the official website for the City of Cedar Vale at www.cityofcedarvale.com/
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Be sure and check out our website http://www.diamondsnspurs.com where we have more information and pictures about Cedar Vale, Kansas. We are transferrring much of the information to this site, but we will keep the other site updated as well with Cedar Vale pictures and information. So sit back set a spell and enjoy both sites!!
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