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A map showing the town site of the Connecticut Kansas Colony, 65 miles west from Lawrence on the Kansas River. A letter written by Charles B. Lines covers the back of the map. In 1856, after Kansas became a territory, Lines was one of the men who joined the Connecticut Kansas Colony, also known as the Beecher Bible and Rifle Company, a group of individuals who wanted Kansas to become a free state of the Union. The colony located in Wabaunsee, Wabaunsee County, Kansas. Lines spent the rest of his life in Kansas with his family and died at the age of 82 on March 31, 1889.
Date: 1856-1857
Item Number: 305495
Call Number: Charles B. Lines Coll. #418, Oversize
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 305495
Collections - Manuscript - Lines, Charles B.
Date - 1854-1860 - 1856
Date - 1854-1860 - 1857
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Manuscript
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Map
Places - Cities and towns - Wabaunsee
Places - Counties - Wabaunsee
Places - Rivers - Kansas
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Type of Material - Maps
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Manuscript
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