It was founded in 1854 by a future governor of the state and quickly became a center of the abolitionist movement.
It was founded in 1854 by a future governor of the state and quickly became a center of the abolitionist movement. Less than ten years later, the town would be almost entirely ransacked and burned by Confederate outlaws. The rebirth of the city would be sparked by the founding of a university there in 1865, whose mascot took on the name of the anti-slavery forces, the jayhawks. For ten points, name this college town in Kansas.
It was founded in 1854 by a future governor of the state and quickly became a center of the abolitionist movement.
{Lawrence}, Kansas