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Fort Scott National Historic Site Officers quarters at Fort Scott National Historic Site, Fort Scott, Kansas.

Fort Scott

Kansas, United States
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Fort Scott, city, seat (1855) of Bourbon county, southeastern Kansas, U.S. It lies on the Marmaton River near the Missouri border. The community grew up around a military outpost (1842) named for General Winfield Scott. After the garrison was abandoned in 1853, Fort Scott was the scene of clashes between proslavery and antislavery (free state) factions. Some of the buildings erected during the American Civil War (1861–65), when the fort was reactivated, remain; the fort...

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