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3 unusual facts about Sullivan Line


Sullivan Line

In 1816, surveyor John C. Sullivan was instructed to survey the Osage territory starting 20 WEST of Fort Clark at the confluence of the Kansas River and Missouri River.

In 1832, at the conclusion of the Black Hawk War, the Sac and Fox conceded the eastern section of Iowa and the western section of Illinois.

From the north bank of the river opposite Kaw Point in what is today Kansas City Downtown Airport he was instructed to survey a line 100 miles straight north and then east to the Des Moines River (the Sac and Fox owned the land east of the river).



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