Marais Des Cygnes Massacre in Kansas

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	Marais Des Cygnes Massacre
Kansas State Historical Marker
Linn County
	US-69, Linn County Roadside turnout, .5 miles north of Trading Post , KS, USA

	Nothing in the struggle over slavery in Kansas did more to inflame the nation than the mass killing which took place May 19, 1858, about four miles northeast of this marker. Charles Hamelton who had been driven from the territory by Free-State men, retaliated by invading the county with about 30 Missourians.