Time Travel Series: Quindaro at the Crossroads
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Events Description
A boomtown rose on the Missouri River and was gone within five years.
Time Travel Series: Quindaro at the Crossroads (Free Soilers, Runaways, and Wyandot on the Missouri) comes to the River Garden at Rock Island Bridge on Tuesday, October 13th from 6 to 7 PM. Dr. Kevin McPartland tells the story of Quindaro, Kansas, founded by Free Soilers and members of the Wyandot Nation at the height of the Bleeding Kansas struggle. It was home to abolitionists, women’s rights advocates, runaway enslaved people, and migrants looking for new lives on the Kansas border. The town collapsed within five years, but its legacy outlived it.
Here’s What to Expect:
- The rise and fall of Quindaro, a Kansas boomtown of the 1850s
- Dr. Kevin McPartland on Free Soilers, the Wyandot Nation, and freedom seekers on the border
- A look at what it meant to be American in the turbulent 1850s
- An hour of Kansas City history above the Kansas River
- Make the most of your visit
Join us for lunch or dinner—our dining room and walk-up window are open daily.
From 11 AM to 3 PM, enjoy the casual Rock Island Eats lunch menu, featuring comfort-food favorites and quick bites.
Beginning at 3 PM, we serve the River House dinner menu, featuring Midwest lake-house favorites, coastal smokehouse flavors, cocktails, and scenic river views.
Prefer to grab your food and go enjoy the rest of the bridge? The walk-up window (Rock Island Eats) is open for both lunch and dinner.
See River House Menu
See Rock Island Eats Menu
A boomtown rose on the Missouri River and was gone within five years.
Time Travel Series: Quindaro at the Crossroads (Free Soilers, Runaways, and Wyandot on the Missouri) comes to the River Garden at Rock Island Bridge on Tuesday, October 13th from 6 to 7 PM. Dr. Kevin McPartland tells the story of Quindaro, Kansas, founded by Free Soilers and members of the Wyandot Nation at the height of the Bleeding Kansas struggle. It was home to abolitionists, women’s rights advocates, runaway enslaved people, and migrants looking for new lives on the Kansas border. The town collapsed within five years, but its legacy outlived it.
Here’s What to Expect:
- The rise and fall of Quindaro, a Kansas boomtown of the 1850s
- Dr. Kevin McPartland on Free Soilers, the Wyandot Nation, and freedom seekers on the border
- A look at what it meant to be American in the turbulent 1850s
- An hour of Kansas City history above the Kansas River
