The “Kansas Day” edition of the Explorer, published by the Kansas Explorers Club, featured Historic Lecompton’s Constitution Hall and the Territorial...
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Bleeding Kansas 2019 Program Series Announced
Bleeding Kansas 2019 Program Series Announced Constitution Hall State Historic Site, Historic Lecompton, 2pm Sundays. Suggested donation $3 per adult. A series of talks and dramatic interpretations on the violent territorial and civil was of Kansas and the nation,...
Christmas in Lecompton
Visit Historic Lecompton During the Christmas Season See the largest indoor Christmas Tree display in the midwest On Display from October 15 thru January 1st Memories of Christmas are relived in visiting Historic Lecompton. See an indoor display of over 150 trees...
Bleeding Kansas 2018 Program Series Announced
Constitution Hall State Historic Site in Lecompton has announced their 2018 series of talks and dramatic interpretations of the violent territorial and civil war of Kansas and of the nation that occurred between 1854 and 1865. The series has become an anticipated...
First Ever Free State Majority Legislature in Kansas
October 1857 in Lecompton, Kansas
The Lecompton Constitutional Convention
A quick history into the Lecompton Constitutional Convention, the writing of the Lecompton Constitution, and submission to Congress.
Early Lecompton area settler: Mary Ann Zinn McClanahan
She endured the hardships of settling in Kansas Territory.
The Hoch-Wald Ranch
A ranch at Grover Station hoped to cure the deadly tuberculosis.
Teachers from all over the country come to learn “Bleeding Kansas” history
UMKC “Crossroads of Conflict” course includes trip to Lecompton
2017 Christmas in Lecompton Nov. 1st – Jan. 1st
Come see the largest display of indoor Christmas trees with antique and vintage ornaments in the Midwest!