Promises made and broken! Who deserves to be free? The fight for freedom! Soldiers fighting settlers! Each of these stories is a link in the chain of events that encircled Fort Scott from 1842-1873. All of the site's structures, its parade ground, and its tallgrass prairie bear witness to this era when the country was forged from a young republic into a united transcontinental nation.
What you’ll hear
32 places to explore in this park.
- Bake House
- Carriage Houses
- Company Office
- Dragoon Barracks
- Dragoon Barracks Exhibit Room
- Dragoon Stables
- Entrance to Fort Scott
- Flag Pole
- Fort Entrance Area
- Fort Scott National Cemetery
- Fort Scott Parade Ground
- Guardhouse
- Hospital Garden
- Infantry Barracks
- Infantry Barracks-Museum
- Laundress Quarters
- Lunette Blair-Blockhouse
- Married NCO Quarters
- Mess Hall
- Mess Hall-Kitchen
- Officers' Quarters No. 1
- Officers' Quarters No. 2
- Officers' Quarters No. 4
- Picnic Area
- Post Commander's Headquarters
- Post Hospital
- Powder Magazine
- Quartermaster Quadrangle
- Quartermaster Storehouse
- Sergeants' Room
- Squad Room
- Well and Canopy
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