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	Nicodemus
Kansas State Historical Marker
Graham County
	US-24, Graham County Roadside turnout, Nicodemus , KS, USA

	In July 1877 Negro exodusters from Kentucky established a settlement here in the Promised Land of Kansas which they named Nicodemus. Although the colonists lacked sufficient tools, seed and money, they managed to survive the first winter, some selling buffalo bones, others by working for the Kansas Pacific railroad at Ellis, 35 miles away. In 1880 the all-Negro community had a population of more than 400.