Baxter Springs, Kansas, USA
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Where is Baxter Springs, Kansas, USA? Baxter Springs, Cherokee, Kansas, USA
Nineteenth-century settlers named the city and nearby springs after its first European-American settler, A. Baxter, who claimed land about 1850 and built a frontier tavern or inn.
Interesting article about Baxter Springs Massacre (Civil War):
opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/ 2013/ 10/ 07/ massacre-at-baxter-springs/
Baxter Springs, Kansas, USA
Soldier's Monument
Baxter Springs, Kansas, USA
Lowell Dam
Baxter Springs, Kansas, USA
Baptist Church
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1863 Baxter Springs Massacre
Date(s): 6 Oct 1863
Location: Cherokee County, Kansas, US
Outcome: Confederate...Read MORE...
Date(s): 6 Oct 1863
Location: Cherokee County, Kansas, US
Outcome: Confederate...Read MORE...
1895 - THE DEADLY CYCLONE. The City of Baxter Springs Laid Waste By a Twister Yesterday. SIX PERSONS INSTANTLY KILLED.Several Others Fatally Injured and Scores Maimed and Crippled - Everything in the Path of the Storm ...Read MORE...
1916
Baxter Springs, a banking city of Cherokee co., Kan., on Spring River and on the Kansas City, Fort...Read MORE...
Baxter Springs, a banking city of Cherokee co., Kan., on Spring River and on the Kansas City, Fort...Read MORE...
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Albert Alponzo BENNETT
(8 November 1837, Brattleboro, Vermont, USA (West Brattleboro) - 8 October 1863, Baxter Springs, Kansas, USA)
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