This complete lock and shackle portion of a padlock was recovered during excavations at the 2018 Kansas Archeology Training Program field school at the Kaw Mission. The padlock is in the style of the late 1800s and may have been used by either the military or the postal service. The site, now called the Kaw Mission State Historic Site, was built over the winter of 1850 - 1851 by the Methodist Episcopal Church South as a school for boys in the Kaw (or Kansa) tribe. The site was acquired by the state of Kansas in 1951.
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United State Padlock from the Kaw Mission, 14MO368 - 1