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Territorial Capital Museum

640 East Woodson
Lecompton, KS 66050

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785-887-6148

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Here is where the Kansas Capitol Building was to be built.  This building was started with an appropriation of $50,000 from the United States Congress. It was completed to the bottom of the first floor windows when the United States House of Representatives defeated the Lecompton Constitution by only eight votes.  (The U.S. Senate and President James Buchanan encouraged its adoption.)  This meant that Kansas failed to enter the Union as a slave state with Lecompton as its capital. 

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