Tour marks 150th Quantrill raid anniversary in Missouri
About 100 travelers, mostly Missourians, joined a bus tour tracing General Order No 1 and the Quantrill raid era. Stops included Cass County landmarks, Potter farm near Lone Jack, Lumpkin Creek and Dye farm, with reenactments and reflections on vengeance, land, and family ties underlying the Civil War violence.
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Quantrill
Cass County
Kansas
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James Pardee
Columbus
Rafiner
Benjamin Potter
Lone Jack
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Potter
Charles Coleman
Kansas Calvary
Cole Younger
Henry
Lumpkin Creek
John Holt
Dye Farm
William Quantrill
Chris Edwards
Kansas University
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Commemorative Quantrill Raid events and museum exhibit
Morning walking tours highlight sites from Quantrill’s Raid while a 6:30 p.m. program at the South Park Gazebo includes a victim names reading and Civil War era music by the City Band. Watkins Museum unveiled a $300,000 permanent exhibit with artifacts from the attack drawing record crowds and 750 visitors by 2 p.m. A related lecture traced Quantrill’s route post raid, and audience members joined three guided walks across key sites on New Hampshire and Massachusetts streets.
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House of Quantrill
John L. Crane
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Watkins Museum Collections
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Watkins Museum
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Deborah Barker
Franklin County Historical Society
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William Clarke Quantrill
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Brooklyn
Douglas County
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Ottawa
Nichols
Barker
Kaw Valley
Rosalie
Washington
Cornet Band
Magarel
Watkins
Eleventh Street
New Hampshire
Seventh
Massachusetts
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Armitage
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