Nicodemus, Kansas

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Township Hall in Nicodemus
Township Hall in Nicodemus

Nicodemus, Kansas is a small community in North Central Kansas, located 2000 ft (610 m) above sea level in the middle of the Great Plains. There are 27 residents. Nicodemus National Historic Site, commemorating the only remaining western town established by African Americans during the Reconstruction Period following the American Civil War is in town.

Plat map
Plat map

During the last weekend of July, former residents of the town return for celebrations and parades.


[edit] Academic References

  • Crockett, Norman I. The Black Towns. Lawrence: Regents Press of Kansas, 1979.
  • Hamilton, Kenneth Marvin. Black Towns and Profit: Promotion and Development in the Trans-Appalachian West, 1877-1915. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991.
  • Hamilton, Kenneth Marvin. "The Origins and Early Promotion of Nicodemus: A Pre-Exodus, All-Black Town." Kansas History 5 (winter 1982): 220-242.
  • Promised Land on the Solomon: Black Settlement at Nicodemus, Kansas. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Rocky Mountain Region, n.d.
  • Schwendemann, Glen. "Nicodemus: Negro Haven on the Solomon." Kansas Historical Quarterly 29 (spring 1963): 10-31.

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