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JOIN the Shawnee Indian Mission Patriots“The visual landscape surrounding the historical buildings at the Shawnee Indian Mission has been encroached upon through the years [of over 2000 acres, only the 12 acre site is now preserved]. For this reason alone, further encroachment must be prohibited. With the small bit of contextual landscape that is left, children today can imagine what life was like when the Mission was serving the Native American youth of the 1840’s”. (Kansas Preservation Alliance, 4/12/2005)
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Brief history of the Shawnee Indian Mission State Historic Site
The Shawnee Mission and Indian Manual Labor School operated from 1839-1862 and was one of the earliest and longest-lived of such institutions in the Louisiana Purchase Territory. The first territorial governor of Kansas had his offices at the Mission, and the first territorial legislature met there in 1854. Today the Shawnee Indian Mission State Historic Site is situated on twelve of the original 2,000 plus acres that originally comprised the site. The site was designated a National Historic Landmark, and listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1968. ----- ----- Who are the Shawnee Indian Mission Patriots?
The Shawnee Indian Mission Patriots is a community grassroots group comprised of concerned and civic-minded neighbors of the Site and other members of the community. The goal of the Group is to preserve the Shawnee Indian Mission site intact and to promote and enable the site's long-term status as the jewel of northeast Johnson County and the State of Kansas.
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