Memorial Day Weekend at the Fort Scott National Historic Site

Historical Activities

Features talks, tours, demonstrations, and living history programs about Fort Scott’s role in the pivotal events of American History in the place where it happened. Visitors have the opportunity to learn more about the role of the dragoons and Infantry in policing the Permanent Indian Frontier and in our nation’s westward expansion or explore the time known as “Bleeding Kansas” and the events and impacts of the Civil War that followed.