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Forging a Nation: Fort Scott in the Mid Nineteenth Century. Promises made and broken! Who deserves to be free? The fight for freedom! Soldiers fighting settlers! Each of these stories is a link in the chain of events that encircled Fort Scott from 1842-1873.
The current national historic site protects 20 historic structures, a parade ground, and five acres (20,000 m 2) of restored tallgrass prairie, inside the city of Fort Scott. It is open to visitors most days of the year.
At Fort Scott National Historic Site, visitors can see 20 historic structures, a parade ground and five acres of restored tallgrass prairie. They can tour 33 historically furnished rooms in the fort’s historic buildings and enjoy three exhibit areas.
The site preserves 20 historic structures, eleven of which are original buildings, the others are reconstructions built on the original foundations. The site is furnished to the 1840s era, but the story told here encompasses three decades of American history.
Fort Scott National Historic Site is a unit of the National Park Service. The site exhibit areas and visitor center are open daily from 8:30 am-4:30 pm. The park grounds are open daily from ½ hour before sunrise until ½ hour after sunset.
Today, Fort Scott’s buildings endure as memorials to the legacy of a young and vibrant America. Fort Scott National Historic Site commemorates the Civil War and how it shaped our country by presenting the Annual Spring Civil War Encampment!
Fort Scott National Historic Site to preserve, protect, and interpret nationally significant historic resources related to the opening of the West, the Permanent Indian Frontier, the Mexican-American War, Bleeding Kansas, the Civil War, and the expansion of railroads.
Established in 1842, Fort Scott served as one of a line of forts from Minnesota to Louisiana that helped to enforce this promise of a "permanent Indian frontier." Soldiers kept peace between white settlers, native peoples like the Osage, and relocated Eastern tribes.
Today there are 18 buildings and a Greek revival well canopy at Fort Scott National Historic Site. Most of the buildings are reconstructed. Portions of other buildings are original. One of the more interesting exhibits is the unrestored Wilson-Goodlander House.
As the nation developed, tensions over slavery led to the conflict and turmoil of "Bleeding Kansas" and the Civil War. Fort Scott takes you through these years of crisis and beyond to the time when the United States emerged as a united, transcontinental nation.