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Nicodemus National Historic Site

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Nicodemus National Historic Site

Official Park Visit Number: 59 of 431

Parks Remaining: 372

Location: Nicodemus, KS

Arrival Date: Oct 8, 2022

Trip Number: 6 (Group: 18)

Passport Region: Midwest

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Formerly enslaved African Americans left Kentucky at the end of the of post-Civil War Reconstruction period to experience freedom in the "Promised Land" of Kansas. Nicodemus represents the involvement of African Americans in the westward expansion and settlement of the Great Plains. It is the oldest and only remaining Black settlement west of the Mississippi River.

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