Nicodemus National Historic Site

Formerly enslaved African Americans left Kentucky in organized colonies at the end of the of post-Civil War Reconstruction period to experience freedom in the "promised land" of Kansas.

Nicodemus represents the involvement of African Americans in the westward expansion and settlement of the Great Plains.

The site is still home to several descendants of the original settlers.

It was designated a National Historic Site by an Act of Congress in 1996.