From some perspectives the violent border conflict between Kansas and Missouri led…
📍 Lawrence, Douglas County
From Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, through Fort Scott, and north to Fort Leavenworth,…
📍 Fort Scott, Bourbon County
Judge James Hanway was an integral part of Kansas Territory and early…
📍 Lane, Franklin County
Topeka's oldest standing house was built in 1856 by ardent abolitionist John…
📍 Topeka, Shawnee County
The Battle of Osawatomie was fought on this site on August 30,…
📍 Osawatomie, Miami County
Until he was hanged on December 2, 1859, for raiding a federal…
📍 Osawatomie, Miami County
A tall marble statue of abolitionist John Brown stands on the site…
📍 Kansas City, Wyandotte County
Lane Trail, named for free-state leader James Lane, was established to bypass…
📍 Sabetha, Nemaha County
The stone schoolhouse, restored to its 1904 appearance, sits in a quiet…
📍 Edgerton, Johnson County
A tall white obelisk marks the cemetery's first gravestone, that of Ohio…
📍 Lawrence, Douglas County
Colorful red, orange, and white markers are found throughout town explaining Lecompton's…
📍 Lecompton, Douglas County
Bleeding Kansas, the Underground Railroad, and the Civil War are feature exhibits…
📍 Pleasanton, Linn County
When you're the Ornate Box Turtle Capital of the World,...
Kids will flip, literally, when they enter this playland of...
This 1939 Texaco station has been restored by owner Aaron...
Earl's Coffee exists because a community refused to let its...
