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The school — at 7401 Johnson Drive in north Overland Park — was named Shawnee Mission High School in 1948 after future Kansas Gov. Robert F. Bennett, then a senior at the school, was sent to ...
Smith Center was founded in 1871. [5] The first post office in Smith Center was established in January 1873. [6] Like Smith County, Smith Center was named for Maj. J. Nelson Smith of the 2nd Colorado Cavalry, a pre-war native of Elwood, Kansas, who died leading his regiment on October 21, 1864 at the Battle of the Little Blue River.
In the western three-fourths of present-day Kansas the Indians were hostile to whites. The Indians in the eastern portion of the territory were usually more receptive to the settlers. Thus virtually all the settlers and forts existed in eastern Kansas. [5] The advent of settlement radically changed the Army's role in Kansas.
The UKB members are composed primarily of descendants of the "Old Settlers," Cherokees who settled in present-day Arkansas and Oklahoma around 1817. [6] They were well established before most of the Cherokees were forcibly relocated by the United States government from the Southeast to Indian Territory in what became known as the 1838 Trail of ...
The most controversial provision in the Kansas–Nebraska Act was the stipulation that settlers in Kansas Territory would vote on whether to allow slavery within its borders. This provision repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which had prohibited slavery in any new states created north of latitude 36°30' .
Sep. 25—Perkins celebrates its 100th Old Settlers' Day this week — and the whole city is welcoming guests to the "Wonderful World of Perkins" from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. City leaders plan ...
Smith County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas.Its county seat is Smith Center. [2] As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,570. [1] The county is named in memory of J. Nelson Smith, a major in the 2nd Colorado Cavalry, killed at the Battle of Westport on October 21, 1864.
The Anishinaabe-speaking Swan Creek and Black River Chippewa bands were removed from southeast Michigan to Kansas in 1839. After Kansas became a state and the Civil War ended, European-American settlers pushed out the Native Americans. Like the Delaware, the two Chippewa bands were relocated to the Cherokee Nation in 1866.