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Title: Historic Spots or Mile-Stones in the Progress of Wyandotte County, Kansas
Description: Descriptions of the Huron Indian Cemetery at 7th and Minnesota Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas, adjacent to the Kansas City, Kansas, Main Public Library and also known as the "Wyandot City of the Dead."
Date: 1935
Object Type: Book

Title: Huron Cemetery In Kansas City, Kansas
Description: View of large, obelisk tombstone with â€œArmstrongâ€ name on it located in Huron Cemetery in downtown Kansas City, Kansas, on Minnesota Avenue between 6th and 7th Street. Identified as "Huron Cemetery."
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Huron Cemetery
Description: View of â€œBarnesâ€ tombstone in Huron Cemetery in Kansas City, Kansas. Identified as â€œHuron Cemeteryâ€.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Huron Cemetery
Description: View of tombstones in Huron Cemetery, Kansas City, Kansas. Identified on back of original photo as â€œ Views from Huron Cemetery, not very goodâ€.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Huron Cemetery
Description: View of George I. Clark tombstone in Huron Cemetery in Kansas City, Kansas. Clark is identified as "Head Chief of the Wyandotte Nation, Born June 10, 1802, Died Jan. 25, 1858". Identified on photo as "Huron Cemetery."
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Huron Cemetery
Description: View of tombstones in Huron Cemetery in Kansas City, Kansas. Identified as â€œHuron Cemeteryâ€.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Indians: Ambush
Description: Article about the possible reclaimed ownership of land in downtown Kansas City, Kansas, (centered around Huron Cemetery next to the public library) by the national tribe of Wyandotte Indians.
Date: 1956-09-17
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Wyandotte Indians Moved Into Kansas More Than A Century Ago
Description: Reprint from The Kansas City Star, September 8, 1956. Tells how the Wyandotte tribe came into possession of the area and the buildings built by them, including the council house that opened the first free school in Kansas. They began Quindaro cemetery and purchased the Huron cemetery from the Delawares.
Date: 2003
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Huron Place
Description: Historical overview of the churches, schools, businesses, and other important sites within the boundaries of the old Huron Place cemetery in Wyandotte County. The orginal cemetery boundaries were located between 6th and 7th streets, from Minnesota Avenue to Anne Avenue, in what is now downtown Kansas City, Kansas. The land was orginally designated a burial ground by the Wynadot Indians in 1843.
Date: 2008
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Kansas: 'As Long as . . .'
Description: Short article about how the Wyandotte Indians of Oklahoma (part of the Huron tribe) reclaimed the two-acre tract of land in Kansas City, Kansas, used as a burial ground. The Huron Cemetery land was ceded to the U.S. government by the Wyandottes when they were forced to move to Oklahoma. A stipulation of the treaty guaranteed the land would be a cemetery for �??as long as the rivers flow and the grasses grow.�?�
Date: 1956-09-17
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Huron: Also Known as the Wyandotte
Description: Article about the ethnic history of the Wyandotte Indians, a group of the larger Huron tribe in the Saint Lawrence Valley and Great Lakes area in the 1600s. They were allies of the French explorers and fur traders and enemies of the Iroquois tribe.
Date: 1998
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Huron Cemetery--National Burying Ground of the Wyandotte Indians
Description: Article about genealogical information gathered at Huron Cemetery, "located in the 600 block on Minnesota Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas--west of and adjacent to the Public Library in Huron Park."
Date: 1963-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Huron Indian Cemetery
Description: Article describes the history of the Huron Indian Cemetery in Kansas City, Kansas, located at North 7th Street and Minnesota Avenue. The cemetery served the Wyandot Nation from the time of their removal to Kansas in 1843 until the tribe was reorganized in ''Indian Territory'' in the early 1870s.
Date: 2001
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Parking Lots--and 30-Minute Meters to Encourage Their Use
Description: Illustrated map and article about the parking lot plan in the downtown or retail business section of Kansas City, Kansas. The main branch of the Kansas City, Kansas, Public Library adjacent to the Huron Cemetery park shown in the map, with description of safety factors, landscaping, and intentions to bring more shoppers back to the area.
Date: 1940-11
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: SC30-8 DAR Elizabeth Benton Chapter Scrapbook Finding Aid
Description: A Kansas City Times article dated Nov. 12, 1979, stated that the Elizabeth Benton DAR chapter, located in Kansas City, Mo., was the first Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution formed west of the Mississippi River. It was organized in 1894 and named after Elizabeth Benton, wife of Missouri Senator Thomas Hart Benton. The scrapbook was assembled in 1921 by the chapter's Committee on Preservation of Historic Points. The scrapbook contains 177 photocopied pages with 70 black and white historical photographs of the Kansas City area. Located at the front of the scrapbook is a contents page listing the local subjects included which pertain to historical points of interest in the area such as area businesses and buildings, disasters, events, churches, cemeteries, local personalities, etc.
Date: 1921
Object Type: Finding Aid

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