Fort Scott National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)

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Forging A Nation-The Story of Fort Scott

Promises made and broken! A town attacked at dawn! Thousands made homeless by war! Soldiers fighting settlers! Each of these stories is a link in the chain of events that encircled Fort Scott from 1842-73. All of the site's structures, its parade ground, and its tallgrass prairie bear witness to this era when the country was forged from a young republic into a united transcontinental nation.

30 star flag and flagpole at Fort Scott NHS.

Visiting the Site

It is the mission of the National Park Service at Fort Scott National Historic Site to preserve, protect and interpret nationally significant historic resources related to the opening of the West, the Permanent Indian Frontier, the Mexican-American War, Bleeding Kansas, the Civil War and the expansion of railroads. As you visit the site, you will view historic structures and exhibits that tell the story of this important era of our nation's history.

You may also take a virtual tour of the site by following this link.

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Fort Scott Candlelight Tour

The Candlelight Tour has long been a holiday tradition at Fort Scott. The light of 700 candle lanterns, the whinny of horses, and reenactors in period costume all help to create the ambience of yesteryear at the historic site. This year, the candlelight tour will be held on December 4 and 5, 2009.
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Nevada High School students in period costume

Virtual Resource Center

The staff at Fort Scott developed the virtual resource center in the spring of 2000 as a research aid to high school students who present programs to elementary students in grades K-4 during our "Life on the Frontier" program. The individual programs or stations convey various aspects of life at Fort Scott during the 1840s. Others researching these topics might also find this site of interest.
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Write to

Fort Scott NHS
P.O. Box 918
Fort Scott, KS 66701

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Phone

Visitor Information
(620) 223-0310

Fax

(620) 223-0188

Climate

Spring and autumn are pleasant with mild temperatures. Summers are generally hot and humid, while winters are mild with periods of cold weather and varying snowfall. Thunderstorms are common throughout the spring and summer. Heavy coats should be worn in winter, while persons traveling in other seasons should bring rain gear in case of thunderstorms.