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Nicodemus is a census-designated place (CDP) in Graham County, Kansas, United States. [1] As of the 2020 census , the population was 14. [ 2 ] The community was founded in 1877 and is named for the Biblical figure Nicodemus .
Nicodemus was founded in 1877, led by Rev. W.H. Smith, a black minister, and W.R. Hill, a white land developer, and five other black men who formed the Nicodemus Town Company and began visiting churches in Kentucky to encourage people to move to Kansas. [2]
Nicodemus Township, Graham County, Kansas. ... Nicodemus Township is a township in Graham County, Kansas, United States. At the 2000 census, its population was 52.
This is a list of all National Historic Landmarks designated by the U.S. government in Kansas.There are 26 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) in Kansas. The United States National Historic Landmark program is operated under the auspices of the National Park Service, and recognizes structures, districts, objects, and similar resources according to a list of criteria of national significance.
The Nicodemus National Historic Site, commemorating the only remaining western town established by African Americans during the Reconstruction Period following the American Civil War, is in Kansas. The National Park Service indicates the town's name came from the 1864 piece, "Wake Nicodemus" by Henry Clay Work . [ 34 ]
There are over 1,600 buildings, sites, districts, and objects in Kansas listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Kansas. NRHP listings appear in 101 of the state's 105 counties . Contents: Counties in Kansas (links in italic lead to a new page)
During the 1870s and the decade that followed, blacks bought more than 20,000 acres (81 km 2) of land in Kansas, and several of the settlements established during this time (e.g., Nicodemus, Kansas, which was founded in 1877) still exist today.
[1] [3] Nicodemus was the first free Black settlement on the Great Plains, and one of the first American communities with Black leadership. [3] In 1878, Niles was elected as the second president of the Nicodemus colony. [4] In the mid-1878 there was a food shortage in Kansas which caused a struggle to maintain the colony. [1]