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Osawatomie, Kansas. Osawatomie is a city in Miami County, Kansas, United States, [1] 61 miles (98 km) southwest of Kansas City. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 4,255. [5] It derives its name as a portmanteau of two nearby streams, the Marais des Cygnes River (formerly named "Osage River") and Pottawatomie Creek.
The Potawatomi Trail of Death was the forced removal by militia in 1838 of about 859 members of the Potawatomi nation from Indiana to reservation lands in what is now eastern Kansas. The march began at Twin Lakes, Indiana (Myers Lake and Cook Lake, near Plymouth, Indiana) on November 4, 1838, along the western bank of the Osage River, ending ...
Statue of John Brown. The John Brown Museum, also known as the John Brown Museum State Historic Site and John Brown Cabin, is located in Osawatomie, Kansas. The site is operated by the Kansas Historical Society, and includes the log cabin of Reverend Samuel Adair and his wife, Florella, who was the half-sister of the abolitionist John Brown.
Battle of Osawatomie. The Battle of Osawatomie was an armed engagement that occurred on August 30, 1856, when 250–400 pro-slavery Border ruffians, led by John W. Reid, attacked the town of Osawatomie, Kansas, which had been settled largely by anti-slavery Free-Staters. Reid was intent on destroying the Free-State settlement and then moving on ...
News-Press & Gazette's properties include daily and weekly newspapers in Missouri and Kansas, radio and television stations in California, Idaho, Oregon, Colorado, Arizona, Missouri and Texas. The NPG group generally concentrates on the Kansas City and St. Joseph areas for their newspapers, and the western United States for their broadcasting ...
Osawatomie State Hospital. Osawatomie State Hospital is a public psychiatric hospital in the U.S. state of Kansas, located in the city of Osawatomie, Kansas. Established by the Kansas legislature in 1863 and opened in 1866, it is the oldest operating psychiatric hospital in the state of Kansas. [1][2][3] It has been named "Kansas Insane Asylum ...
Bloomfield is refining its retail cannabis ordinances ahead of the start of legal retail sales next year. Several amendments were introduced at the most recent Township Council meeting.
3 [2] Residence. Osawatomie, Kansas. Doug Walker (born January 11, 1952) is an American former politician who served for two terms as a Democrat in the Kansas State Senate, from 1989 to 1996. Walker was born in Independence, Kansas. He worked as a high school teacher in the Osawatomie school system and served on the city council in Osawatomie ...