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Title
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Historic Spots or Mile-Stones in the Progress of Wyandotte County, Kansas
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Description
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One reference and an entire chapter of the book, including photos, about the White Church and its neighborhood in Wyandotte County, Kansas, the first church in Kansas as part of the Methodist Indian mission for the Delaware tribe, organized in 1832.
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Date
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1935
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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The Biography of a Neighborhood
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Description
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Brief item describing the life of Joseph Parks. Parks came to own 1290 acres of land straddling Wyandotte and Johnson Counties as a result of the Treaty of 1854 with the Shawnee Indians.
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Date
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1995-04
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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History of Johnson County, Kansas
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Description
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Recollections of the three Johnson County Indian missions by early resident, J.W. Parker. Locations of the missions are detailed, as is the location of an early church that stood "just at the entrance of Shawnee village" from the east.
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Date
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1915
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Thomas Johnson
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Description
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Item describing the murder of Thomas Johnson by bushwhackers in 1865. Johnson, a founder of the Shawnee Methodist Mission, was shot through his front door by men attempting to rob his home.
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Date
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1905-03-29
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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History of Johnson County, Kansas
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Description
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Recollections of William Johnson, son of the Rev. Thomas Johnson, founder of the Methodist Episcopal Shawnee Indian Mission in Johnson County. Johnson's recollections describe life at the mission, the laying out of the 2,240 acre mission farm, and the construction of mission buildings.
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Date
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1915
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Methodist Shawnee Indian Mission
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Description
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Two chapters of the book relate information about the Methodist Shawnee Indian mission in Johnson County, Kansas, and its manual labor school during the border warfare period of the 1850s.
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Date
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1905-01-29
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Object Type
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Book
