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Saving Kansas City's Battlefield
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Saving Kansas City's Battlefield Initiative |
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Because of the growth
of Kansas City, few portions of the Battle of Westport
of October 21-23, 1864, the largest Civil War battle
west of the Mississippi have survived. The Byram's
Ford Historic District encompassing the historic ford
and the associated Byram's Ford Road site has
fortunately remained largely unchanged since 1864.
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In 2006, the Monnett Fund launched
the Saving Kansas City's Battlefield Initiative
with the purpose of acquiring the rest of the
battlefield adjacent to the Byram's Ford Historic
District and restoring it to its 1864. It
is a unique and ambitious effort to reclaim and preserve
this historic battlefield. |
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No other effort in the national
campaign to preserve Hallowed Ground has begun from this
level of intervening development and disturbance. The
restoration effort requires the acquisition and
reclamation of key tracts of land at the battle site,
which has been used previously as an industrial park.
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Saving Kansas
City's Battlefield 2009 Update
The video below
produced by Lauran Smith for the Monnett Fund to launch
the
Saving Kansas
City's Battlefield Initiative,
illustrates the
Big Blue Byram's Ford
Battlefield following its restoration under our
reclamation plan. This update includes
the Fund's most recent
progress since 2006 in reclaiming this Hallowed
Ground for future generations.
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