Shawnee Methodist Mission
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Shawnee Mission
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East Building in 1940
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| Location | 3403 W. 53rd Street, Fairway, Kansas |
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| Coordinates | 39°1′59.2818″N 94°37′26.796″W / 39.033133833°N 94.62411000°WCoordinates: 39°1′59.2818″N 94°37′26.796″W / 39.033133833°N 94.62411000°W |
| Built | 1839 |
| NRHP Reference # | 66000345 |
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| Added to NRHP | October 15, 1966 |
| Designated NHL | May 23, 1968 |
Shawnee Methodist Mission was established by missionaries in 1830 in Turner, Kansas to minister to the Shawnee tribe of Native Americans who had been removed to Kansas. In 1839 the mission relocated to Fairway, where it built a brick building referred to by names varying from Shawnee Indian Methodist Manual Labor School. Designated as a National Historic Landmark, the Shawnee Methodist Mission is operated today as a museum. The site is administered by the Kansas Historical Society as the Shawnee Indian Mission State Historic Site.
The Shawnee Methodist Mission served briefly as the second capital of the Kansas Territory, when the legislature was controlled by pro-slavery advocates, holding that designation from July 16 to August 7, 1855.
The Shawnee Methodist Mission is the origin of the Shawnee Mission name used by the United States Postal Service to refer to the Kansas City Metropolitan Area suburban communities in northeastern Johnson County. The Shawnee Mission School District serves those communities.
The "Fish" Shawnee tribe was removed from its traditional Ohio home to the unorganized territories set aside for Native Americans (in the future state of Kansas) under the terms of a treaty dated November 7, 1825. The mission was initially built on land near the American Shawnee Indian Tribe reserve in Turner by Reverend Thomas Johnson. He hoped to convert the recently relocated tribe to Christianity.
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