From National Historic Sites
Nicodemus National Historic Site
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- Designation
- National Historic Site
- State
- KS
- Park address
- Nicodemus, KS
- Entrance fee
- No entrance feeNPS data as of 2026-08-25
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Notes
Designation Date: 11/12/1996
Formerly enslaved African Americans left Kentucky at the end of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period to experience freedom in the "Promised Land" of Kansas. Nicodemus represents the involvement of African Americans in the homesteading movement across the Great Plains. It is the oldest remaining Black settlement west of the Mississippi River.