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Encyclopedia Britannica



OSAWATOMIE

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 344 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ORC-PAI
OSAWATOMIE , a city of
Miami
  county, Kansas, U.S.A., about 45 M. S. by W. of Kansas City, on the Missouri Pacific railway. Pop. (1900) 4191 (227 negroes); (1905, state
census
 ) 4857; (1910) 4046. A state
hospital
 
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for the insane (1866) is about x m. N.E. of the city. The region is a good one for general farming, and natural gas and petroleum are found in abundance in the vicinity. Osawatomie was settled about 1854 by colonists sent by the Emigrant Aid
Company
 , and was platted in 1855 its name was coined from parts of the words " Osage " and " Pottawatomie." It was the
scene
  of two of the " battles " of the " Border War," and of much of the political violence resulting from the clashes between the "pro-slavery " and the " free-state " factions of Missouri and Kansas. On the 7th of June 1856 it was plundered by about 170 pro-slavery men from Missouri. On the 3oth of August 1856 General John W. Reid, commanding about 400 Missourians, attacked the town. The attack was resisted by Captain John
Brown
  (who had come to Osawatomie in the autumn of 1855) at the head of about 40 men, who were soon overpowered. Of Captain
Brown
 's men, four were killed and two were executed. The town was looted and practically destroyed. A park commemorating the
battle
  was dedicated here on the 31st of August 1910.


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