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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDFS_free-state-hotel_Lawrence-KS.html
This marks the site of the Free State Hotel erected in 1855 by the New England Emigrant Aid Society. Destroyed by Sheriff Jones and his posse May 21, 1856, and rebuilt by Col. Schaler W. Eldridge. Quantrill and his raiders destroyed Lawrence Augus…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD86_citizens-memorial-monument_Lawrence-KS.html
(Front Inscription):Dedicated to the memory ofthe one hundred and fifty citizenswho defenseless fellvictims to the inhuman ferocity of borderguerrillas led by the infamous Quantrellin his raid upon Lawrence.August 21st, 1863.Erected May 30, 1895(B…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD7W_trail-park_Baldwin-City-KS.html
This Angling Road is the Original Santa Fe Trail.Park Area Donated by I. and J. Stickle to Baker University in 1907.
D.A.R. Monument Commemorates the Dispersal of Free-State and Pro-Slavery Forces after the Battle of Black Jack.
Original Bro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD7U_baldwin_Baldwin-City-KS.html
Here, and for the next 300 miles west, Highway 56 roughly follows the old Santa Fe Trail, and frequently crosses it. White settlement began in this area in 1854, the year Kansas became a territory, and in 1855 the town of Palmyra was founded. When…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD7K_black-jack-park_Wellsville-KS.html
(Main marker):South of this park are 18 acres of virgin prairie. Purchased 1967 by Douglas County from Russell Hays for a permanent prairie preserve and historic site. Evidence of Santa Fe Trail plainly visible. Original site of D.A.R, marker was …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD7I_battle-of-black-jack_Wellsville-KS.html
This "battle" was part of the struggle to make Kansas a free state. In May, 1856, Proslavery men destroyed buildings and newspaper presses in Lawrence, Free-State headquarters. John Brown's company then killed five Proslavery men on Pottawatomie C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD7A_the-battle-of-black-jack_Wellsville-KS.html
(Left marker):The Battle of Black Jack"Civil War in Kansas!""Let not the knives of pro-slavery men be sheathed while there is one abolitionist in the Territory."Squatter, Sovereign, proslavery newspaper in Atchison, Kansas Territory, June 10, 1856…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD79_battle-of-black-jack_Wellsville-KS.html
(Main Marker):First Battle between Free and Slave States fought on these grounds June 2, 1856
(Secondary Marker):Deeded to Kansas 1917
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD5J_baker-university_Baldwin-City-KS.html
Erected this building and opened its door for instruction November 22, 1858Werner Renick Davis, PresidentThe trustees realizing their financial inability to construct a building to meet their dreams of the future requirements of the college, erect…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCZJ_globe_Overbrook-KS.html
Santa Fe Trail followed high landto the SW of this marker.Two miles south of here the Marion TownCompany laid out the Town of Marionin honor of Gen. Francis Marion, "TheSwamp Fox" of Revolutionary War fame.Town well, Blacksmith Shop, two storesand…