• Fort Parade Ground and Officers Quarters as seen from Guardhouse

    Fort Scott

    National Historic Site Kansas

Nearby Attractions

National Park Service Areas

George Washington Carver National Monument
84mi

Wilson's Creek National Battlefield
133 mi

Harry S Truman National Historic Site
100mi

Brown V Board Of Education National Historic Site
143mi

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve
147mi

Pea Ridge National Military Park
133 mi


Related State Parks and Historic Sites

Mine Creek State Historic Site
913-352-8890 26mi

Marais Des Cygnes Massacre State Historic Site
913-352-8890 28mi

John Brown State Historic Site
913-755-4384 56mi

Prairie State Park
417-843-6711 30mi


Local Attractions

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Did You Know?

Barrels in the quartermaster storehouse at Fort Scott

All supplies had to be strictly accounted for at Fort Scott. Upon discovery of 31 barrels of pork that had turned "soft and rusty", Lt. George Wallace, post quartermaster, recommended selling it to the Indians at $4.00 a barrel rather than disposing of it.