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Marais des Cygnes

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Marais des Cygnes

River flowing through eastern Kansas and southwestern Missouri, USA; length 240 km/150 mi. It rises north of Emporia, Kansas, and flows into Missouri where it joins the Little Osage River to form the Osage River.

Flood control projects on the Marais des Cygnes and tributaries have created Kansas's Melvern Lake and Pomona Reservoir.

History

Just west of the Missouri border, in a wetlands area north of Fort Scott, Kansas, is the site of the ‘Marais des Cygnes massacre’, the killing of a number of antislavery settlers on 19 May 1858. Pottawatomie Creek, a tributary that joins the Marais des Cygnes from the southwest at Osawatomie, had been the site of the ‘Pottawatomie massacre’, the killing of five proslavery settlers by John Brown and his sons on 24 May 1856.



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