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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10WV_dr-james-naismith_Lawrence-KS.html
Born November 6, 1861 in Almonte Ontario, Canada and died November 28, 1939 in Lawrence, Kansas. Buried in Lawrence Memorial Park.
Dr. Naismith invented the game of basketball as a winter indoor sport for the YMCA at Springfield, Massachusetts …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYB0_douglas-county-courthouse_Lawrence-KS.html
Designed by John G. Haskell and Fredrick Gunn in the Richardsonian Romanesque style
Constructed by the firm of Cuthbert and Sargent of Topeka, KS 1903-1904
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYAH_the-douglas-county-memorial-of-honor_Lawrence-KS.html
Recognizes the extraordinary sacrifices of ordinary citizens - men and women of Douglas County, Kansas who gave their lives to protect freedom, our community and our way of life. It stands as an eternal symbol of hope, renewal and the indomitable …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYAE_lawrence-visitor-information-center_Lawrence-KS.html
Welcome to historic Lawrence, Kansas, and its Visitor Information Center in the centuy-old Union Pacific Depot. Lawrence was founded in 1854 by antislavery forces determined to see that the newly opened Kansas territory joined the union as a free …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP4X_john-speer-farmstead_Lawrence-KS.html
Abolitionist John Speer established a farmstead on this site shortly after his arrival in Kansas Territory in September 1854. A newspaper publisher from Pennsylvania, Speer became a part of the struggle to bring Kansas into the Union as a free, no…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME61_lawrence-veterans-memorial_Lawrence-KS.html
main marker For God And Country
Dedicated to those War Veterans that never returned
Picture of American Flag on a flagpole The Five Seals of the Armed Forces of the United States
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDH5_lawrence_Lawrence-KS.html
Lawrence was established in 1854 by the Emigrant Aid Company, a New England organization formed to prevent the new Kansas territory from becoming a slave state. When the first legislature enacted the so-called Bogus Laws with severe penalties for …
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…