Fort Plymouth - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Fort Plymouth - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The construction of Fort Plymouth began in summer 1856. The site was settled by a group of free-state partisans who entered Brown County from Nebraska Territory. This site was also meant to become a free-state town, but possibly only one house was constructed on the site. The fort, named after Plymouth Rock by surveyors from Massachusetts, was located on or near the top of a high hill north of Pony Creek. Fort Plymouth was south of the Nebraska border."Still Is Reading Proof at Eighty-Three Years," Topeka Daily Capital, April 30, 1916, p. 12B."The Kansas Emigrant Train," The Kansas Tribune (Topeka), August 18, 1856, p. 2.William C. Pollard, Jr., "Forts and Military Posts in Kansas: 1854-1865" (Ph.D. dissertation, Faith Baptist College & Seminary, 1997), p. 114 (this manuscript can be found in the collections of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kans.). Read more on Wikipedia
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