Iowa and Sac & Fox Mission State Historic Site
historic site in Elgin Rd Highland, Kansas
The Iowa and Sac & Fox Mission State Historic Site, also known as the Highland Presbyterian Mission, is the site of a mission that housed the children of two local tribes between 1845 and 1863.
A historic Presbyterian mission building at the site, near Highland, Kansas, has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1970, listed as Iowa, Sac, and Fox Presbyterian Mission.
The building served as a museum from 1996 to 2008. The museum reopened in 2022.
Mission building
The building is a three-story stone and brick building topped by a belfrey giving it total height of 52 feet (16 m). It is 106 by 37 feet (32 m × 11 m) in plan. The building was constructed in 1846 to replace an earlier building. The mission was used as a church and school by the Native Americans in the area. The building added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
History
In 1836 William Clark (acting as superintendent of Indian affairs) negotiated a treaty with the Iowa people and the Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska.
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