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==Legacy== * [[Atchison, Kansas]]<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=4443 | title=Profile for Atchison, Kansas | publisher=[[ePodunk]] | access-date=June 4, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606205916/http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=4443 | archive-date=June 6, 2014 | url-status=dead }}</ref> county seat of [[Atchison County, Kansas]]. ** The [[Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad]] utilized the town name. * [[Atchison County, Missouri]] * [[Atchison Township, Clinton County, Missouri]] * [[Atchison Township, Nodaway County, Missouri]] * [[USS Atchison County (LST-60)|USS ''Atchison County'' (LST-60)]] ship * In 1991, Atchison was inducted into the [[Hall of Famous Missourians]], and a bronze bust depicting him is on permanent display in the rotunda of the [[Missouri State Capitol]].<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6IbqCgAAQBAJ&q=bronze+bust+David+Rice+Atchison+missouri+state+capital&pg=PT89 |title = Stories from History's Dust Bin|isbn = 9781514419922|last1 = Winterton|first1 = Wayne|date = 2015| publisher=Xlibris US }}</ref> * The [[Atchison County Historical Museum]], in Atchison, Kansas, includes an exhibit titled the "World's Smallest [[Presidential Library]]".<ref>{{cite web |title=Thanks for visiting Atchison County's Museum |url=http://atchisonhistory.org/museum.html |website=Atchison County Historical Museum |access-date=August 11, 2017 |archive-date=June 16, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170616214405/http://www.atchisonhistory.org/museum.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> * A [[historical marker]] designating the approximate site of Atchison's birth is located along [[Kentucky Route 1974|Highway 1974]] in the [[Lansdowne, Lexington|Landsdowne]] neighborhood of [[Lexington, Kentucky]].<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/53798| title=Lexington, Kentucky: One-Day President Birthplace| website=roadsideamerica.com| access-date=June 29, 2018}}</ref>
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