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Wolken Plumbing & Electric, Inc.
Distance: 42.3 Mi815 W 11th Ave
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Barneys Electric
Distance: 42.0 Mi14400 50th Rd
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Newton Relocation Services
Distance: 63.9 Mi735 Main Street
66092 Wellsville -
Worldstar Entertainment Inc
Distance: 72.1 Mi4745 W 136th St
66224-5923 Overland Park -
Galileo Media Services
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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 territories. Murder, mayhem, robbery, and arson were committed by bold free-state and pro-slavery advocates in the name of their cause. On January 29, 1861, Kansas entered the union as a free state, but the turmoil of "Bleeding Kansas" continued throughout the Civil War. During the Civil War, Fort Scott was a U.S Army district Headquarters, quartermaster supply depot, training center, and recruitment station. It was strategically vital to the defense of Kansas and the Midwest. After the Civil War, Fort Scott was a premier city of the frontier, one of the largest cities in eastern Kansas. On three different occasions, between 1870 and 1900, Fort Scott was in competition with Kansas City to...