Marais des Cygnes Massacre Site
Historic place
Marais des Cygnes Massacre Site is a historic place in Linn County, Kansas, listed on the National Register of Historic Places on 1971-06-21.
Place facts
- Category
- Historic place
- Resource type
- Site
- State
- Kansas (KS)
- County
- Linn County
- NRHP reference number
- 71000317
- Coordinates
- 38.28127, -94.62024
- Listed on the National Register
- 1971-06-21
- City
- Trading Post
- National Historic Landmark
- Yes
Location
Published coordinates: 38.28127, -94.62024. This point is calculated to fall on the mapped boundary below. It marks the resource, and it is not the centre or an address.
Listing record
Additional details recorded by the National Park Service in the National Register listing for this resource. Every value below is published by the authority; none is written, inferred or estimated here.
- Area of significance
- Politics and government
- Level of significance
- National
- Acreage recorded
- 43 acres
- Designated a National Historic Landmark
- 1974-05-30
- Also recorded as
- Marais des Cygnes Massacre Memorial Park
Official documentation
The National Park Service publishes the official nomination document for this listing. It is linked here and is not reproduced, hosted or summarized on this site. The document was observed to be available on 2026-08-21.
National Register nomination document (PDF, opens on the National Park Service site)
Sources
Every fact on this page comes from the registered datasets below, cited per claim and carried through an independently verified content release.
- Listing recordNational Park Service, nps.nrhp-listed (version 2026-05-22), NRHP reference 71000317
- CoordinatesNational Park Service, nps.nrhp-polygons-ks (version 2026-07-25), NRHP reference 71000317