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Old Minneola as Capital of Kansas Territory
The article chronicles Minneola’s brief bid as Kansas Territory capital. It details legislative fights over Leavenworth Lecompton and Topeka, Perry Fuller’s town company schemes, rapid growth and boom, the 1858 constitutional convention, adjournment to Leavenworth, federal Attorney General Black’s ruling voiding Minneola, and the town’s eventual abandonment. It traces the移ature of Ottawa’s public buildings from the former capitol site to later uses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Congress
Kansas Territory
Andrew H. Reeder
Missouri
Pawnee
Fort Riley
Topeka
Senate
Lecompton
Lawrence
Geary
First Territorial
Fort Leavenworth
Reeder
Thomas Johnson
Territorial Council
Shawnee Mission
United States
U.S
Perry Fuller
Centropolis
Franklin County
Jefferson City
Perry Fuller and Company
Minneola Town Company
Minneola Town
Minneola
E. N. Morrill
St. Bernard
Eight-Mile Creek
Joe Bernard
Eight - Mile Creek
Leader
William Austen
Austen
J. W. Denver
Leavenworth
Webster
Denver
Jeremiah S. Black
Min Incola
James Lane
General Lane
Mort Conway
Lane
Conway
Sam Toppen
Jim Lane
Joel Goodwin
Minneolans
Ohio City
Fort
Ottawa
People’s National Bank
Mary Ward
Horace J. Smith
Wilkerson
Thomas R., Lafayette
John C
George W. Hamblin
East Second Street
Legislative Hall
Minneola Towen Company
Grains of Kansas