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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y6K_lawrence-and-the-old-trails_Lawrence-KS.html
Between Lawrence and Topeka, the Kansas turnpike passes near the route of the old Oregon-California Trail, traveled in the 1800s by explorers, missionaries, soldiers, emigrants in search of land, and forty-niners in search of gold. Fifteen miles s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1O4C_trinity-episcopal-church_Lawrence-KS.html
Trinity Parish organized 1857
Original church consecrated July 29, 1859
on this site by Jackson Kemper,
First Missionary Bishop of
the Episcopal Church
The present Gothic Revival style sanctuary
was erected 1870-1873
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1O43_standard-mutual-life-building_Lawrence-KS.html
The Fraternal Aid Society built a three story building on this site in 1904
Fire substantially destroyed the structure in 1930
Standard Mutual Life Insurance Company reconstructed this Renaissance Revival style building and occupied it from 19…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1O40_lucy-hobbs-taylor-building_Lawrence-KS.html
National Register of Historic Places
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1O3Z_first-united-methodist-church_Lawrence-KS.html
Organized 1855 as the
Methodist Episcopal Church
This Richardsonian Romanesque style building was constructed 1889-1891
Initial worship held February 8, 1891
John G. Haskell, Architect
Daniel Dahlene, Stonemason
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H5P_grand-army-of-the-republic-memorial_Lawrence-KS.html
This fountain is dedicated by the Woman Relief Corps Number 9, Department of Kansas, Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic as an enduring memorial of perpetual service to the living, in loving remembrance of Comrade Robert S. and Mary J. McF…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H4D_spanish-american-war-memorial_Lawrence-KS.html
Erected by
Company H
20th Kansas Inft. U.S.V.
Eighth Army Corps
Spanish-American War
1898 - 1899
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GYU_world-war-ii-memorial-campanile_Lawrence-KS.html
Free government does not bestow repose upon its citizens but sets them in the vanguard of battle to defend the liberty of every man.
[Roll of 277 KU Honored Dead]
[Cast bronze door panels, dedicated 1955, read]
Achievement ? Courage ? Aspiration …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GYP_korean-war-memorial_Lawrence-KS.html
This memorial commemorates the conflict that began on June 25, 1950 when North Korean military forces crossed the 38th Parallel and launched a massive invasion of South Korea. Responding to pleas for help by the Government of the Republic of Korea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GYA_california-and-oregon-trails-memorial_Lawrence-KS.html
Beginning in 1849, there plodded up the southern slope of Mount Oread a vast emigration bound for the golden land of California. One branch of the great California and Oregon Trail thus passed over the very ground now part of the university campus…