Oak Hill Cemetery (Lawrence, Kansas)
The Oak Hill Cemetery is a cemetery in Lawrence, Kansas. It was first constructed as a way for the people of Lawrence to remember those who were killed in Lawrence massacre, Quantrill's Raid. Several prominent Kansans are buried there, including Charles L. Robinson, John P. Usher, and James Henry Lane (Indiana and Kansas), James H. Lane. It was built in 1866. References

Lawrence, Kansas National Register of Historic Places in Douglas County, Kansas Cemeteries in Kansas 1866 establishments in Kansas {{Kansas-NRHP-stub ...
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Lawrence, Kansas
Lawrence is the county seat of Douglas County, Kansas, Douglas County, Kansas, United States, and the sixth-largest city in the state. It is in the northeastern sector of the state, astride Interstate 70, between the Kansas River, Kansas and Wakarusa River, Wakarusa Rivers. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of the city was 94,934. Lawrence is a college town and the home to both the University of Kansas and Haskell Indian Nations University. Lawrence was founded by the New England Emigrant Aid Company (NEEAC) and was named for Amos A. Lawrence, an abolitionist from Massachusetts, who offered financial aid and support for the settlement. Lawrence was central to the "Bleeding Kansas" period (1854–1861), and the site of the Wakarusa War (1855) and the Sacking of Lawrence (1856). During the American Civil War it was also the site of the Lawrence massacre (1863). Lawrence began as a center of Free-Stater (Kansas), free-state politics. Its economy diver ...
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