Gated Community Visitors
by Christopher McKenzie
Title
Gated Community Visitors
Artist
Christopher McKenzie
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
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The Visitors take the opportunity to survey the land around the 1890 farm home of Robert Hall Pearson near Edgerton, Kansas.
What makes this place significant is down the hill behind the home where one of the first battles of the American Civil War occurred on June 2nd, 1856. Known as the Battle of Black Jack, militia for Pro-slavery fought it out for some three hours against Free State militia. The location was a popular stopping point for settlers along the Sante Fe Trail which ran past here from 1822 to 1872.
In fact, just across the creek (in the Ivan L. Boyd Memorial Prairie Preserve) there are a number of huge wagon ruts (or swales) cut in the earth that are still in existence from those times when thousands of settlers and pioneers traversed the land in search of new lives.
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April 2nd, 2016
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