A Birdseye View of the City of Lawrence, Kansas, 1869, "Images of America Lawrence". Click to enlarge
Lawrence was destroyed, but Lawrencians would not let their town die. They immediately began to rebuild. Their town was to rise again like a phoenix.
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"Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence", 1 July 2018, The Civil War Traveler - Youtube.
Lawrence quickly rebounded from the raid and women were instrumental in that..." Prominent members of the town and community raised funds to pay for relief for families who suffered in the raid." |
Seal of the City of Lawrence, Kansas, Watkins Museum of History.
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These improvements transformed Lawrence from ashes into a flourishing city.
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Really within a year we see a bridge being built across the kansas River which helped with commerce and travel, we quickly see the telegraph come in then the railroad come in which helped with transportation and communication, led the town to expand and grow rapidly. Lawrence relatively quickly rebounded from the raid. In some ways quicker than the whole country did from the Civil War." |
African Americans
Marla Jackson's quilt - "Still We Rise", 27 Aug. 2017, lawrence.com. Click to enlarge.
Marla Jackson‘s latest quilt, 'Still We Rise,' highlights the role black people played in the raid and the border war that surrounded it." |
They’re not the politicians and community leaders one usually hears about in the best-known stories of Quantrill’s raid. But [African Americans] were important…” ...you can’t just tell the white story without telling the black.” 
African Americans helped transform Lawrence into the city it is today after their homes were ransacked during the raid.
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Then and Now
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Rebuilding better than before, Lawrence now embraces the tragedy as what led them to become stronger.
