Kansas marked its sesquicentennial — its 150th birthday — on January 29, 2011.

To commemorate the occasion, LJWorld.com has created a special feature celebrating our state. There, we’ve compiled stories from our reporters and from the Wichita Eagle about the state’s sesquicentennial.

The stories cover a wide range of Kansas history, from the campaign to restore the prairie cabin where “Home on the Range” was originally written, to a Lawrence man who decided to take a bowling tour of the state.

Also on our sesquicentennial website, you can look through hundreds of photos that illustrate Kansas from the early days of statehood to the recent past. The photos show life on the prairie, the 1930s Dust Bowl and Kansas aviation manufacturing during World War II. The photos also follow the lives of famed Kansas figures such as Carrie Nation, Amelia Earhart and Dwight Eisenhower.

And although the state’s actual birthday has already passed, the celebrations haven’t; you can take a look at a calendar listing events taking place throughout the year.