Nicodemus Family

ID: 564
This file appears in: Stonetown
Nicodemus Family

A number of Kentucky African Americans moved to Kansas in the late 1870s for better opportunities and to escape physical persecution. This image shows an African American family in Nicodemus, Kansas. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

This file appears in: Stonetown

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #2375 in Scott County notes the location of Stonetown, one of a number of Kentucky African American rural communities that formed in the years following the Civil War. When the Civil War ended, many of Kentucky’s freed slaves…