Name/Title
Highland Presbyterian Mission, Indian Mission School, Highland Kansas, Information FileEntry/Object ID
AM2020.1.332Scope and Content
Highland Presbyterian Mission, Indian Mission School, Highland Kansas, Information File. File folder photocopies of documents and news clippings about this first mission in Indian Territory in 1838, after Indians were removed from the Platte Purchase area.
Located at 1737 Elgin Road, Highland, KS.
Includes.--
--Handwritten history of the Indian removal & the mission by William Richardson, Indian agent. 2 pages. Describes first printing press operating at mission in 1843. Mentions one of the first books as part of Highland College Library. Describes the land given to the Kickapoo & Iowa, Sac, & Fox tribes in 1837.
signed by Wm Richardson and gives two other names. written in 1916 (Both original & photocopy of this document).
--News Clipping, St. Joseph New-Press Feb. 2, 1982
"Museum's fate to be decided soon". Discusses plans by state of Kansas to close some of its museums. (Fortunately, the Highland Mission was spared at the time, but did close for the same reasons in 2008.)
--Letter from Museum Directors, March 11, 1982
Letter from Directors of St. Joseph Museum & Pony Express Museum, and St. Joseph Visitors Bureau to Doniphan County Historical Society, encouraging Kansas not to close the Mission in Highland.Lexicon
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