KANSAS ? Fort Scott has added its name to the Guinness Book of World Records twice, breaking marks for laying the longest line of pennies and laying a mile of pennies faster than anyone else has ever done.

The second record – laying 40 miles of pennies, eclipsing the old mark of 34.57 miles – was achieved at 7:40 p.m. Friday, three days after the first coin was laid on the ground Tuesday evening.

“They set the record for the longest line of coins and the whole community came together,” said Kaoru Ishikawa, Guinness record manager. “It’s been quite a moving time.”

On Thursday night, volunteers and members of the Fort Scott Youth Activities Team put down a mile of pennies in a time of 2:23.01 – just 74 seconds faster than the previous record of 2:24.15 set in February by teachers and pupils in Rickmansworth, United Kingdom, Ishikawa said.

On Friday, hundreds of volunteers from 32 community groups completed the longest line of pennies to beat the old record by more than five miles. The previous record had been set on Aug. 6, 1995, in Malaysia.