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Step back in time at the Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop & Farm

Explore hands-on history in 19th-century Kansas

Sophisticated, suburban Olathe, Kan., may seem like the last place to find a sanctuary for 19th-century living history, but look again. Tucked into ...

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Posted on August 8, 2011 11:04AM by Becky Blake

Lyons Restaurant serves cinnamon-rich poached pears

Sample this dish, then visit the elegant Lyons Twin Mansions in Fort Scott, Kan.

Since 1989, the Lyons Twin Mansions Bed & Breakfast in Fort Scott, Kan., has been treating visitors to a ...

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Posted on August 5, 2011 3:19PM by admin

Where it Really Started

Before the Civil War — before Gettysburg, before Shiloh, before Fredericksburg, even before Confederate cannonballs rained down on Fort Sumter — a battle was fought over the issue of slavery. And it ...

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Posted on August 3, 2011 2:10PM by Dennis Toll

Celebrate Lawrence’s Civil-War role in freedom

Activities commemorate the anti-slavery history of this Kansas communityFrom 1854 to 1861 – years before shots rang out at Fort Sumter in South Carolina, starting the Civil War – Kansas Territory ...

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Posted on August 1, 2011 12:44PM by Becky Blake

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Step back in time at the Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop & Farm

Lyons Restaurant serves cinnamon-rich poached pears

Where it Really Started

Celebrate Lawrence’s Civil-War role in freedom