{"id":3294,"slug":"lecompton-lecompton-kansas","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Lecompton is the rigged — the 'border ruffians' that's the voters' flood, the 'Missouri' that's the ballots' source. The 'constitution' is the failed — the 'protected slavery' that's the document's aim, the 'rejected' that's the voters' answer. The 'Buchanan pushed' is the pressed — the 'admission' that's the president's want, the 'party split' that's the fallout's form.","The 'two governments' is the split — the 'Topeka' that's the free-staters' seat, the 'treason arrested' that's the governor's charge. The 'capital born' is the died — the 'territorial seat' that's the town's rank, the 'capital lost' that's the boom's end. Lecompton is the cracked — the 'Democrats split' that's the national effect, the 'Lincoln helped' that's the war's road.","The file keeps Lecompton: the rigged votes, the failed constitution, the pressed president, and the cracked party.","Lecompton is the archive's Kansas file — the constitution that broke a party."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Lecompton is the archive's Kansas file — the capital that wrote a doomed constitution.","A town keeps its document — the file's suggestion being that Lecompton's hold is the rigged: the 'ruffians' that's the voters' fraud, the 'slavery' that's the document's aim, and the 'split' that's the nation's crack."]}],"name":"Lecompton","aliases":[],"type":"TOWN","type_label":"Town","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","POLITICAL","BLEEDING_KANSAS"],"groups":["legends"],"desc":"The pro-slavery capital—where the constitution split the nation.","full_desc":"Lecompton is a town in Lecompton, Kansas. The pro-slavery capital—where the constitution split the nation. The archive files it under Bleeding Kansas, political history and local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. It is a living community — be a respectful visitor.","address":null,"city":"Lecompton","county":null,"state":"Kansas","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":39.040289,"lon":-95.393955,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":"Historic site","research_notes":"plains batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":3384,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures in the town. A Kansas town's lore is municipal property; Lecompton keeps this account in its unofficial archive. The reports are anecdotal — consistent enough to record, thin enough to stay unproven. The report is preserved in sources like 'Lecompton'. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Lecompton","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecompton,_Kansas","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The 1855-57 constitution fight is documented. The town's past is on record — this entry belongs to the verified layer beneath its folklore. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The record appears in 'Lecompton'. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on. The file stays open on it.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1855","date_end":"1857","confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Lecompton","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecompton,_Kansas","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Public townsite; walkable areas are generally accessible year-round.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Lecompton","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecompton,_Kansas","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}