You’ll find Aubry’s ghost town remains in modern-day Johnson County, Kansas, where it began as a Free-State settlement in 1857. During the Bleeding Kansas era, the town became a flashpoint for violence between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces. After Quantrill’s raiders struck in 1862, the Union Army established a garrison there. The town’s decline accelerated after the Civil War, and today only scattered ruins and burial grounds mark where this contested border settlement once stood.
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11.1 What Were the Primary Occupations of Aubry’s Earliest Settlers?…