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Marais des Cygnes Massacre State Historic Site

Trading Post, KS

In 1858 proslavery men captured Free-State settlers here and shot them in a ravine, killing five. The preserved rural site contains markers and interpretation at the location of one of the final major violent episodes of Bleeding Kansas.

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

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Source: kansashistory.gov/marais_des_cygnes

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