Lecompton, KS Real Estate

Lecompton is a small community in Douglas County, Kansas, USA. It is part of the Lawrence, Kansas Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 608 at the 2000 census. Lecompton played a major historical role as the seat of the pro-slavery Kansas faction during Bleeding Kansas in the 1850s and embraces that history today. [ citation needed ]

Lecompton was founded in 1854 and planted on a bluff on the south bank of the Kansas River. It was originally called " Bald Eagle ", but then later changed to Lecompton in honor of Samuel D. Lecompte, the chief justice of the territorial supreme court. In the spring of 1856, the town became the official capital of the Kansas Territory. President James Buchanan appointed a governor and officials to establish government offices in Lecompton, and construction began on an elegant capitol building.

In the fall of 1857 a convention met in Constitution Hall and drafted the famous Lecompton Constitution, which would have admitted Kansas as a slave state. The constitution was rejected after intense national debate and was one of the prime topics of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. The controversy contributed to the growing dispute soon to erupt in civil war. The Lecompton Constitution failed, in part, because the antislavery party won control of the territorial legislature in the election of 1857. The new legislature met at Constitution Hall and immediately began to abolish the pro-slavery laws. The victorious free-state leaders chose Topeka as capital when Kansas became a state in 1861.

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Price City, State Property Type Beds/Baths Sq.Ft. Miles $295,000 Lecompton, KS Single Family 3/3 1876 1.9 $279,000 Lawrence, KS Single Family 0/0 0 6.6 $169,900 Lawrence, KS Single Family 0/0 0 6.6 $151,900 Lawrence, KS Condo/Townhome 3/3 2132 6.6 $125,000 Lawrence, KS Condo/Townhome 3/2 2000 6.6 $387,500 Lawrence, KS Single Family 4/3 2917 6.6 $174,500 Lawrence, KS Condo/Townhome 4/3 1864 6.6 $389,900 Lawrence, KS Single Family 4/2 3200 7.7 $184,500 Lawrence, KS Single Family 0/0 0 7.7 $314,900 Lawrence, KS Single Family 4/4 3000 7.7 $185,000 Lawrence, KS Single Family 3/2 2300 7.7 $155,000 Lawrence, KS Single Family 0/0 0 7.7 $264,900 Lawrence, KS Single Family 4/3 2300 7.7 $285,000 Lawrence, KS Farm/Ranch 3/2 2180 7.7 $159,900 Lawrence, KS Condo/Townhome 3/2 1421 7.7 $159,600 Lawrence, KS Single Family 3/2 1454 7.7 $219,000 Lawrence, KS Single Family 3/3 3100 9.0 $330,000 Lawrence, KS Single Family 0/0 0 9.0 $209,900 Lawrence, KS Single Family 3/2 1650 9.0 $190,000 Lawrence, KS Single Family 3/2 1700 9.0 $192,000 Lawrence, KS Single Family 3/2 1600 9.0 $246,500 Lawrence, KS Single Family 4/3 3200 9.0 $139,900 Lawrence, KS Single Family 3/2 1400 9.6 $289,500 Lawrence, KS Single Family 3/3 2000 9.6 $349,900 Lawrence, KS Single Family 3/2 2100 9.6 $118,500 Lawrence, KS Condo/Townhome 3/1 1200 9.6 $151,900 Lawrence, KS Single Family 3/1 1800 9.6 $199,500 Lawrence, KS Single Family 5/1 2622 9.6 $119,500 Lawrence, KS Single Family 2/1 1000 9.6 $154,900 Lawrence, KS Single Family 3/2 1474 9.6

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