National Park Passport Stamps obtained at this park
Official Park Visit Number: 59 of 433
Parks Remaining: 374
Location: Nicodemus, KS
Arrival Date: Oct 8, 2022
Passport Region: Midwest
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Read my blog entry for this park.
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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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