LENEXA
Johnson County • Kansas Local
Lenexa was platted in 1869
Lenexa is the birthplace of Garmin, a multinational technology company founded in 1989. Lenexa is the regional headquarters of Kiewit Construction, an employee-owned, Fortune 500 American privately held construction company based in Omaha, Nebraska founded in 1884.
In 1857, James Butler Hickok, also known as Wild Bill Hickok, staked a claim on 160 acres at what is now the corner of 83rd and Clare Road.
According to the census of the Shawnee Indians living in the area, one of the residents listed was Na-Nex-Se Blackhoof. She was the widow of Chief Blackhoof, the second signer of the 1854 treaty that ceded 1,600,000 acres of the Kansas Shawnee Indian reservation to the United States government.
The first town name proposed for the town was “Bradshaw” after C.A. Bradshaw, who sold the right-of-way to the railroad. Bradshaw modestly refused and the name “Lenexa”, a derivation of the name Na-Nex-Se, the name of the wife of Shawnee Chief Thomas Blackhoof was adopted.
Every year in June, the city of Lenexa hosts “The Great Lenexa Barbecue Battle”, which is also the Kansas State Championship.
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