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	John Brown Country
Kansas State Historical Marker
Miami County
	US-169, Miami County Roadside, Sixth and Lincoln Avenue, Osawatomie, KS, USA

	Osawatomie - the name derives from a combination of Osage and Pottawatomie - was settled in 1854 by Free-State families from the Ohio Valley and New England. John Brown, soon to become famous for his militant abolitionism, joined five of his sons at their homes near the new town in October 1855. By the spring of 1856, local defiance of Proslavery laws and officials was so notorious that 170 Missourians punished the area by looting Osawatomie.