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Paris first Linn County seat
Ghost town Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Buttons and buckles
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: lead balls, percussion caps.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Unknown (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1856-1867 Bleeding Kansas county seat
Paris was a pro-slavery county seat of 300 to 400 people founded in 1856 and used as a rallying point for raids on free-staters. It lost the 1859 county seat election to Mound City, whose men took the records under threat of cannon, and the town was almost entirely abandoned by 1866 or 1867.View source →
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