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The Raid On Lawrence

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Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
August
Year
1863
Copyright
Public Domain
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ín the capital town of Douglas county, Kiinsa, wt'iqtpd on the right bank of the Kansas lii.vcr, seventy railes froin íts mou-tb by the windings oftheítream and forty-three miles in straight line. [The Kansas lïiver empties into the Missouri noar Kansas City], It is built on a rolling slope, and container!, as Inte ns about a year ag, between fonr and fivo hundred, buildings, uorao of wliio'n vvere brick and atona. It lias Baptist, Congregationalist, Episcopal, Methodist, PresbyterísQ and Eomnn Catholic churohes, a newpaper office [Lawrence Republican,"] tsco savv milis, a grist inill, u machine shop, several coach and wagon faetones, a tannerv,a poap and candle factory, a brewery and dislillery, and six Beven hotels. An acadomy is localed here, togetlier with eeveraj schools. Th o city was founded -in 1854 bysettlers lrorn the Jiastern ÖUtes, under ibe auspices of the Now England Emigrant Aid Society of Massaohusetts. The population" bv the census of 1860 was about 2,500, at twhieh time the valuó ol Usable prop. erty wan as?eseed at omethinr Uko

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Old News
Michigan Argus