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Ottawa Kansas & Franklin County Area History

Home Of Ottawa University, Ottawa Kansas Is The County
Seat of Franklin In Beautiful Northern Kansas

Franklin County's development was highly influenced
by the Indian tribes native to this area as well as those brought here by government treaties. The area that became Franklin County had the most immigrant
Indians of all counties in Kansas.
  
Franklin County was home to Pawnee, Missouri, Muncie, Osage, Ottawa, Kansa, Teton, Chippewa, Shawnee, Sac, Fox and several smaller tribes.
   
About the same time as the Indians were being forced out, guerrilla warfare began between the abolitionists and the pro-slavery forces. John Brown arrived in Osawatomie in 1855 to lead the abolitionists in the fight against slavery. He earned lasting fame in 1857 for his attack on Harper's Ferry, WV. Another historic figure, William Quantrill, came to Miami County in 1857 to teach school. During the Civil War, Quantrill frequented the area and camped near Bull Creek following his historic raid on Lawrence, KS.
     

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The Civil War brought many such conflicts to the eastern part of the state and consequently it became known as "Bleeding Kansas."
  
Indians from the northern and eastern areas
of the United States were forced into Franklin County. They were given grants or reservations which explains why our county was not settled as early as other parts of Kansas. One of the tribes with a great deal of influence on the county was the Ottawa Indians. One of the tribes with a great deal of influence on the county was the Ottawa Indians.
  
The word Ottawa means to trade, and that is what this tribe did. They supplied two thirds of France's New World supply of fur during the 1600s.
  
In 1865, Ottawa University was established by the Ottawa Indians and the American Baptist Church. That marked the beginning of the town called Ottawa.
 
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