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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R9R_wesley-chapel-bell_Mound-City-KS.html
Dedicated to Wesley Chapel
in memory of
David and Ruth Campbell
Founder members and
early-day pioneers
1870 - 1900
Frisco
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In memory of
J. Robert & M. Ellen
B…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HN3_hurra-for-kansas_Pleasanton-KS.html
The Lathrop family lived in a cabin south of the creek. They were home during the battle.
"In front of a log cabin stood an old woman, with several children clinging to her skirts, fearless of the leaden shower which ceaselessly pattered against …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HN2_chaos-at-the-crossing_Pleasanton-KS.html
At the creek at 11 a.m. on October 25, 1864, the four-to-five feet high banks were slippery and crumbling from a recent rain. The rushing water was deep, and the crossing was difficult. Hundreds of wagon wheels and horses had churned the mud into …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HDO_cavalry_Pleasanton-KS.html
The battle at Mine Creek was one of the largest cavalry battles of the Civil War. Thousands of men and horses took part in the engagement.
Cavalry regiments played an important role. In the beginning they supported the infantry and artillery and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HDM_cavalry-horses_Pleasanton-KS.html
Throughout the war a variety of horses were used by both sides. Morgans, American Saddlebreds, Thoroughbreds, Standardbreds, and Quarter Horses are only a few. The ideal horse was a mare or a gelding, aged four or five years, with a height of 56 t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HDK_nursing-the-wounded_Pleasanton-KS.html
When the armies moved south, hundreds of dead and wounded men were left behind on the battlefield. As soon as the shooting stopped civilians from nearby homes offered assistance.
Men "had fallen all about the house and crawled away to fence corner…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HDI_conclusion-of-price-campaign_Pleasanton-KS.html
When Major General Sterling Price commenced his invasion of Missouri he had several objectives. By the time he reached Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) in November, not a single objective had been met. He failed to take St. Louis and Jeffer…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C94_daily-offering_Parker-KS.html
This granite depiction of St. Philippine and two American Indians is an enlarged copy of a 3" x 5" sketch done by an unknown nun of St. Charles, Mo. Lawrence Branstetter of Bruce Marble in Fort Scott copied and enlarged the design using a sandblas…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C93_potawatomi-burial-ground_Parker-KS.html
This place is in memory of more than 600 Catholic Potawatomi Indians buried in this field and down by the river far from their ancestral home of the Great Lakes Area.
Their names are incribed [sic] on the crosses
May they rest in peace
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C92_potawatomi-trail-of-death-march-death-of-fr-petit_Parker-KS.html
[Map] Designates 1838 'Trail of Death' route from Indiana to present day Osawatomie, Kans.
In September 1838 over 850 Potawatomi Indian people were rounded up and marched at gunpoint from their Indiana homeland. Many walked the 600-mile distanc…