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Hiawatha is the largest city in and the county seat of Brown County in the far northeast corner of Kansas.

Founded on February 17, 1857, Hiawatha is one of the oldest towns in Kansas; it became the Brown County seat in 1858 and opened its first school in 1870.

Hiawatha was named by B. L. Rider from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem The Song of Hiawatha, and in the language of the local Ioway tribe it is called Hári Wáta, meaning 'I am looking far away'.

Hiawatha's main street was named Oregon Street after the Oregon Trail, and the streets parallel to it were deliberately named for the Native American tribes living north and south of the trail.

Hiawatha hosts the longest-running continuous Halloween parade in the nation, a tradition that began in 1914 and is known as the Halloween Frolic.

Hiawatha's most famous landmark is the Davis Memorial in Mount Hope Cemetery, where John Milburn Davis spent about $200,000 during the Great Depression building an Italian marble monument — with life-size statues of himself and his wife Sarah — between 1930 and 1934; it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 and still draws thousands of visitors.

According to The New York Times, Archie Comics publisher John Goldwater's fond memories of working at the Hiawatha Daily World as a teenager inspired Riverdale, the idyllic hometown of Archie and his pals.

As of the 2020 census, Hiawatha had a population of 3,280 living in 1,378 households.

Hiawatha High School, served by Hiawatha USD 415, has an unusual circular campus with a domed round gym nicknamed 'The Roundhouse', and its Red Hawks have won state titles in girls basketball (1978 and 1979), football (1980), and girls cross country (2017).

History buffs can visit two museums in Hiawatha: the Brown County Historical Museum and the Brown County Ag Museum, a recreated 1900 farmstead with a log cabin, barn, corn crib, and a windmill trail.