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  • Fort Scott
    Fort Scott
    1 620 223 0550
    1 E 3rd St, 66701-2062  Fort Scott

    Between 1855 and 1861, the citizens of Fort Scott experienced the violent unrest that preceded the Civil War on the Kansas and Missouri border. Eastern newspapers described this violence as "Bleeding Kansas", a result of the national controversy concerning the extension of slavery into the new terr…