New Scandinavia founded by the Scandinavian Agricultural Society9-15-1868City of Scandia incorporated 4-1-1879We dedicate this monument to you ourPioneer Fathers and MothersThe first Colony House was located200 feetwest of this marker
Long before white men settled Kansas this region was the home of Pawnee Indians. French traders in the late 1700's named those along this river the Republican Pawnee in the mistaken belief that their form of government was a republic. From them th…