Oklahoma State Highway 14 route continued north along present-day U.S. 281 through Alva to the state line south of Hardtner, Kansas. (The old road north of Vici became part of SH-34.) New U.S. routes were added to Oklahoma's highway system in 1938. Among these were US-281, formerly a split route with one section in Kansas and one in Texas, which was connected in 1938 via Oklahoma; also added in 1938 was a southern extension of US-183. These two routes were overlaid onto SH-14, with US-183 entering the state from the south near Davidson and following the SH-14 route to Seiling, and US-281 taking the
Kansas State School for the Deaf Kansas State School for the Deaf The Kansas School For the Deaf, is a K-12 school, located in downtown Olathe, Kansas. In 1866, it became the first school for the deaf established in the state of Kansas, and today it remains the largest. Originally named the "Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb", the name has been changed several times to conform to prevailing sensibilities about deafness. Students and staff often refer to the school as "KSD." The school was founded in 1861 by Phillip A. Emery, a deaf person who had taught briefly at Indiana School for the Deaf before