Fort Scott National Historic Site
National Historic Site · Fort Scott, Kansas
A frontier army post built in 1842 on what was then the permanent Indian frontier, sold off a decade later, and then pulled back into service as the town around it became one of the flashpoints of Bleeding Kansas and, later, a Union supply depot. Twenty structures stand around the parade ground and eleven of them are original. The site's subject is uncomfortable and it does not avoid it: the fort existed to enforce a border that was itself the product of removal, and then to fight over slavery.
1 Old Fort Boulevard, Fort Scott, Kansas, 66701, United States
FREE and open daily, generally 8:30 AM - 5 PM. Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas Day and New Year's Day. Ranger talks and living history run on scheduled weekends and through the summer. In the middle of the town of Fort Scott.
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