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First Territorial Capitol State Historic Site

Fort Riley, KS

Kansas's first territorial legislature briefly met in this limestone building in 1855 amid the proslavery and antislavery conflict that became Bleeding Kansas. The site is inside the Fort Riley area, so visitors should review current base-entry requirements before going.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: kansashistory.gov/first_territorial_capitol

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