Promises made and broken! Who deserves to be free? The fight for freedom! Soldiers fighting settlers! Each of these stories is a link in the chain of events that encircled Fort Scott from 1842-1873. All of the site's structures, its parade ground, and its tallgrass prairie bear witness to this era when the country was forged from a young republic into a united transcontinental nation.

Picture of the Post Hospital

Post Hospital

Image of flags from the Symbols of Sacrifice event.

Symbols of Sacrifice

High school students dressed as laundresses demonstrate laundry methods of the 1840s

Laundry Day

High school students interpreting guard duty to elementary students.

On Guard Duty

Officers quarters at Fort Scott bathed in the light of the afternoon sun.

Officers Quarters at Sunset

Soldiers on horseback patrol the prairie.

Fort Scott National Historic Site

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