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Title: Quindaro, Kansas
Description: File contains information and articles about Quindaro, Kansas. Included are multiple articles with photos about Orrin Murray, Sr. (born about 1900), "a black historian" and "a retired schoolteacher and farmer" active in the movement for preservation of the ruins of the town of Quindaro, Kansas (later a part of Kansas City, Kansas), from development as a landfill, etc. Arguments for Quindaro's historical significance as a haven for black slaves escaping across the Missouri River to Quindaro on the "Underground Railroad."
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Quindaro: From the River to the Bluffs
Description: Article provides a brief history of the area called Quindaro, its association with the Underground Railroad, and statue of John Brown.
Date: 2002-12
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: A Sorry Free State
Description: Article describes the past and present of the Quindaro area of Kansas City, Kansas. Quindaro was an anti-slavery town before and during the Civil War, and a crossing place on the Missouri River for runaway slaves.
Date: 2002-03-21
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Quindaro Underground Museum Grant
Description: Article reports the 2006 awarding of a $6,000 Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) grant to the Quindaro Underground Railroad Museum housed in the Vernon Multi-Purpose Center, located at 3436 North 27th St. in Kansas City, Kansas.
Date: 2006-10-13
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Tour of Quindaro Ruins Makes History Come Alive
Description: Author describes a 2006 tour of the Quindaro, Kansas historic site, commencing at the John Brown statue located near 27th and Sewell in Kansas City, Kansas. Quindaro was Missouri River port for Free State settlers in Kansas, and was involved in the Underground Railroad during its boom years of 1857-1861.
Date: 2006-10-20
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Elisha Sortor Residence
Description: Description of the historic importance of the Elisha Sortor residence, built circa 1871, and now located at 3415 Delavan Avenue in the Quindaro area of Kansas City, Kansas. The Sortor family were early settlers of Quindaro, Kansas, and are believed to have been involved in Underground Railroad activities there.
Date: 2006
Object Type: Magazine

Title: The Underground Railroad
Description: Article about the Underground Railroad provides a brief history and its Kansas City area connections. The author mentions many slaves settling in communities like Quindaro, Kansas, and further into places like Leavenworth and Lawrence, Kansas.
Date: 2011-05-20
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Your Kansas City and Mine
Description: Photos and descriptions of landmarks of the Underground Railroad in the old Quindaro section of Kansas City, Kansas, showing the "Old Rock House" with a secret tunnel for fugitive slaves and remnants of another "railway station."
Date: 1950
Object Type: Book

Title: 'An Altar, a Tribute to Liberty'
Description: Dedication of a newly constructed overlook of the Quindaro ruins in Wyandotte County took place September 13, 2008. "In the mid-1800s, the Quindaro Ruins site was an abolitionist community in Kansas that thrived near the Missouri River. The former city of Qindaro helped establish Kansas as a free state and was a stop on the Underground Railroad."
Date: 2008-09-13
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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