Hutchinson is the county seat of Reno County in the state of Kansas, and is about an hour's drive northwest of Wichita; it was founded in 1871 when the Santa Fe Railway built a town where its railroad crossed the Arkansas River. It was nicknamed “Temperance City” because its founder, Clinton CC Hutchinson, prohibited alcohol (this was even before Prohibition was established nationwide). It was incorporated as a city in 1872. Hutchinson was one of many Kansas sites that housed prisoners of war during World War II; the prisoners provided manual labor to cover the shortage of workers who were off fighting the war. Hutchinson is a popular shooting location and has appeared in several Hollywood movies and TV shows; it has also been mentioned in several novels.