Kansas

Monroe School, Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education.

Credit: Phil Schermeister

In Kansas, The Trust for Public Land has conserved heritage sites that enshrine defining moments in American history. Nearly sold at auction in 1990, The Monroe School, central in the Brown v. Board of Education decision, is now an interpretive center on the struggle for civil rights. TPL has also protected the Mahaffie farmstead land along the Old Santa Fe Trail, preserving the route's only known stagecoach stop from encroaching commercial development.

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Mahaffie Farmstead

Visit the Mahaffie Farmstead, the only known stagecoach stop along the Santa Fe National Historic Trail that is open to the public.

Brown vs. Board of Education Historic Site

TPL helped the National Park Service purchase the Monroe School in Shawnee, KS, which became an interpretive center on the struggle for civil rights at the Brown v. Board of Education Historic Site.

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