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 John Brown Country - Osawatomie, Ks Posted by:  iconions
N 38° 30.062 W 094° 57.101
15S E 329812 N 4263212
This Kansas Historical Marker is located at 6th Street and Lincoln in Osawatomie, Ks.
Waymark Code: WM5VEV
Location: Kansas, United States
Date Posted: 02/16/2009
Views: 9
This Marker is part of a larger historical area as one drives into Osawatomie on Old Kansas City Road from the North.
Marker Name: John Brown Country
Marker Type: Roadside
Marker text:
Osawatomie - the name derives from a combination of Osage and Pottawatomie - was settled in 1854 by Free-State families from the Ohio Valley and New England. John Brown, soon to become famous for his militant abolitionism, joined five of his sons at their homes near the new town in October 1855. By the spring of 1856, local defiance of Proslavery laws and officials was so notorious that 170 Missourians "punished" the area by looting Osawatomie. Two months later, Free State men destroyed a nearby Proslavery camp. On August 30, occurred the second battle of Osawatomie, in which a Proslavery force of 400 drove out the defenders. 40 men, led by John Brown, and then plundered and burned the town. Among those killed that day was Brown's son Frederick.
At the John Brown Memorial Park in Osawatomie is the cabin of Rev. Samuel Adair, Brown's brother-in-law, with whom he often stayed. The Republican Party of Kansas was organized at Osawatomie in May, 1859, with Horace Greeley, famous editor of the New York Tribune as the convention's principal speaker.
Marker Location: Miami
Official Marker Number: 50
Name of agency setting marker: Kansas State Historical Society
Marker Web Address: [Web Link]
Year Marker Placed: Not listed
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