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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: Many Lack Knowledge of 'Forgotten Communities'
Description: Discussion of some forgotten communities in Wyandotte County, Kansas, like Braman Hills, Horanif, and Vance, as well as the Pony Express stopover at 74th Street and Riverview Avenue.
Date: 2009
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Freedman University (Later Western University)
Description: Article detailing the history of Freedman University, founded around 1862 in Quindaro, Kansas for the education of African American children by Presbyterian minister Eben Blatchley. In 1881, the school was rededicated as Western University, a school for the industrial education of African Americans.
Date: 2005
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Church in the Wilderness
Description: Article describes the early history of Methodists among the Wyandotte Indians who came to the Kansas City area in July, 1843. Includes descriptions and locations of the earliest Methodist church locations in Wyandotte County.
Date: 2005
Object Type: Magazine Article