Marais des Cygnes Massacre Site
Added to the National Register in 1971, and a National Historic Landmark.
The record
| Property type | Site |
| Address | 5 mi. NE of Trading Post, Trading Post, KS |
| County | Linn County |
| Listed | Jun 21, 1971 |
| Listed for | Politics and government |
| Level of significance | National |
| Also known as | Marais des Cygnes Massacre Memorial Park |
| Reference number | 71000317 |
| Designations | National Historic Landmark, listed on the Register of Historic Kansas Places |
Visiting
| Address | 5 mi. NE of Trading Post, Trading Post, KS |
| Coordinates | 38.2811° N, 94.6200° W · Directions ↗ |
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Map
Nearby in Linn County
Public land around it
| Marais Des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge ↗National Wildlife Refuge, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | About 2 miles away7,596 acres |
Wilderness Atlas publishes a centroid and an acreage for each unit, not a boundary line. Distance here is measured to a circle of the same area drawn around that centroid, so treat it as roughly right rather than surveyed.
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Questions people ask
When was Marais des Cygnes Massacre Site listed on the National Register?
Jun 21, 1971. It is also a National Historic Landmark, the higher of the two designations.
Source: National Park Service
Where is Marais des Cygnes Massacre Site?
5 mi. NE of Trading Post, Trading Post, Linn County, Kansas.
Source: National Park Service
Sources
Name, location, type and dates come from the National Register office's spreadsheet of listed properties, because the Park Service's spatial data does not carry this listing. The map point comes from Wikidata. Construction date, architect, style, photograph and encyclopedia link come from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, matched on reference number 71000317. Nothing here is transcribed by hand. The nomination form and photographs ↗ at NPGallery are the original nomination as filed with the National Park Service, and the form is often the best description of the place.