NICODEMUS
Town — Nicodemus, Kansas
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/nicodemus-nicodemus-kansas/

The last Black homesteaders’ town—1877, still standing.

Nicodemus is a town in Nicodemus, Kansas. The last Black homesteaders’ town—1877, still standing. Its accounts name only a collective — the settlers. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. It is a living community — be a respectful visitor.

Nicodemus is the '77 — the 'Exodusters' that's the migration, the 'first Black' that's the west. The '6 entrepreneurs' is the Topeka — the 'white developer' that's the partner, the 'Solomon Valley' that's the site. The 'sod houses' is the built — the 'dugouts' that's the first, the '114 patents' that's the '99.
The 'Kentucky' is the recruited — the '300' that's the Lexington, the 'turned back' that's the barren. The 'National Historic' is the '96 — the 'only living' that's the Black town, the 'Emancipation' that's the annual. Nicodemus is the longest — the 'still stands' that's the prairie, the 'monument' that's the resolve.
The file keeps Nicodemus: the 1877 founding, the Exodusters, the sod houses, and the NHS designation.
Nicodemus is the archive's Kansas file — the Black frontier.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Nicodemus is the archive's Kansas file — the homestead's persistence.
A town keeps its sod — the file's suggestion being that Nicodemus's hold is the lasted: the 'first Black' that's the west, the '114 patents' that's the owned, and the 'only living' that's the still.

FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] named ghost legend: The founders are reportedly remembered. The settlers is the name the reports keep returning to. Nicodemus, Kansas is a living community with a dead file — the reports are the town's other history. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. The account appears in 'Nicodemus'. Named ghosts are the ones that last — this one has lasted.
  source: Nicodemus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicodemus,_Kansas)
· [Anecdotal] apparition: Reported figures in the town. A Kansas town's lore is municipal property; Nicodemus keeps this account in its unofficial archive. The file holds testimony rather than proof; the claim remains anecdotal. The account appears in 'Nicodemus'. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting. It remains the site's standing claim.
  source: Nicodemus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicodemus,_Kansas)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· [1877] The 1877 settlement is documented. Nicodemus' documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. Sources including 'Nicodemus' carry the record. The date is part of the site's documented spine.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Nicodemus — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicodemus,_Kansas

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