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World's Largest Ball of Twine
World's Largest Ball of Twine is a sightseeing stop in Cawker City, KS. Cost: free.
Shelter on Wisconsin St (US-24) · Cawker City, KS
Why you should go…
Farmer Frank Stoeber started rolling leftover hay-bale twine in 1953, and the ball came to Cawker City in 1961. It now sits in an open-air gazebo on Wisconsin Street, weighs over 27,000 pounds and keeps growing because visitors add to it. The town's twine caretaker can give you a tour and your own sisal twine to wrap, and the town holds a Twine-a-Thon on the third weekend of August.
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- #kansas oddities