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A photograph of the Henry J. Adams house, formerly the home of Sheriff Samuel Jones. On May 21, 1856, Sheriff Jones, accompanied by a group of proslavery men acting as his posse, entered Lawrence intent on destroying the offices of the Herald of Freedom and the Kansas Free State . In the raid that followed, they destroyed the newspaper offices (dumping their newspaper type in the Kansas River), looted several other businesses and burned the Free State Hotel (later the Eldridge House). This action became widely known as the "sack of Lawrence."
Date: Between 1880 and 1920
Item Number: 228978
Call Number: FK2.D4 Le.75 .J *1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 228978
Built Environment - Function - Domestic - Single Dwelling
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1880s
Date - 1890s
Date - 1900s
Date - 1910s
Date - 1920s
Home and Family - Residences - Exteriors
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - Notable Kansans - Jones, Samuel J.
Places - Cities and towns - Lecompton
Places - Counties - Douglas
Thematic Time Period - Age of Reform, 1880 - 1917
Type of Material - Photographs
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