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Mulvane Old Settlers in Mulvane
Mulvane Old Settlers is a small-town community festival in Mulvane, Kansas, held annually to celebrate the towns founding families and local heritage. It typically includes a parade, carnival rides, craft and food vendors, and community activities drawing residents of this Wichita-area suburb together each year.
Old Settlers celebrations emerged across the American Midwest in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a way for pioneer-era communities to formally honor the founding families who first settled a town, often timed to coincide with anniversaries of a towns incorporation or first wave of settlement.