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Pottawatomie Township, Franklin County, Kansas

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Country
  
United States

County
  
Franklin

Elevation
  
271 m

Local time
  
Saturday 3:40 AM

State
  
Kansas

GNIS feature ID
  
0477613

Area
  
101 km²

Population
  
669 (2000)

Pottawatomie Township, Franklin County, Kansas

Weather
  
12°C, Wind W at 13 km/h, 95% Humidity

Pottawatomie Township is a township in Franklin County, Kansas, USA. As of the 2000 census, its population was 669.

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Map of Pottawatomie, KS, USA

Geography

Pottawatomie Township covers an area of 39.01 square miles (101.0 km2) and contains one incorporated settlement, Lane. According to the USGS, it contains three cemeteries: Baker, Lane and Needham.

The streams of Hahn Branch, Mosquito Creek, Pottawatomie Creek, North Fork Sac Branch and South Fork Sac Branch run through this township.

History

On May 24, 1856, during the Bleeding Kansas period of it was in Pottawatomie Township (north of Lane) at Dutch Henry's Crossing, on the Pottawatomie Creek, where the infamous Pottawatomie massacre took place. John Brown led a raid on a pro-slavery family's cabin in response to the Sacking of Lawrence. Five pro-slavery people were killed by Brown and his men. This attack was widely reported around the nation at the time and was one of several incidents that eventually led to the American Civil War.

References

Pottawatomie Township, Franklin County, Kansas Wikipedia