Hickory Point Traditional Cache
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Large pill bottle near the site of the place where the real first
shot of the civil war was fired. Read the sign. Congrats to hdissi
for FTF
This is an easy park and grab at a historicaly signifigant place.
For our first cache we have included a geocoin and a travel bug. We
even left a wheat penny for coin enthusiasts. BATTLE OF HICKORY
POINT Historical marker on US 59, north of Oskaloosa, Jefferson
County, Kansas
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In September, 1856, a band of Proslavery men sacked Grasshopper
Falls (Valley Falls) and terrorized the vicinity. On the 13th, the
Free-State leader James H. Lane with a small company besieged a
party of raiders in log buildings at Hickory Point, about one-half
mile west of this marker. Unable to dislodge them, Lane sent to
Lawrence for artillery and reinforcements. Col. James A. Harvey
responded next day only to find that Lane had raised the siege and
departed. "Sacramento," historic Mexican War cannon, was fired into
the buildings with little effect, and men pushing up a burning
hayrack were shot in the legs. The skirmish ended in an armistice,
celebrated, it is said, over a considerable quantity of whisky.
Casualties were one Proslavery man killed and four wounded, and
five Free-State men injured. At his family's farm home one-fourth
mile west of this marker artist John Steuart Curry (1897-1946) was
born and spent his boyhood years. In 1940 he painted his famed
murals in the Kansas statehouse at Topeka.
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