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World's First White Castle Hamberger Restaurant

In 1921, Walter Anderson opened the first White Castle hamburger restaurant in Wichita, Kansas, the first national hamburger chain. Now more than 80 years old, the chain includes more than 380 restaurants and serves 500 million hamburgers a year.

Address: White Castle Management,
Consumers Affair Department, 965 N. High Street, Columbus, Ohio 43201; 800-THE-CRAVE.
Web: http://www.whitecastle.com.


Largest Natural Gas Field
in the U.S.

The Hugoton Gas Field is the largest natural gas field in the United States. It underlies all or parts of 10 southwestern Kansas counties as well as parts of Oklahoma and Texas. The gas field underlies almost 8,500 square miles, an area nearly 5 times as large as the state of Rhode Island.

Address: Occidental Petroleum Corporation, 800-699-6903. Web: http://www.oxy.com.

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