Gerth Cabin Acrylic Print

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Gerth Cabin by Lynn Sprowl
Part of Kansas History that sometimes we stumble upon while out driving on the back roads.
Eleven slaves freed Dec. 28, 1858 by John Brown and his men from Vernon County, MO, were known to have been hidden in the Greeley area. A baby boy, John Brown Daniels, son of escaped slave Jane Daniels, was born about two miles northwest of Greeley. There is strong evidence to support that these slaves had hidden under the Gerth cabin for a time. Valentin Gerth, originally from Germany, was one of Greeley's first settlers and built this later infamous cabin. Gerth was greeted by the Pottawatomie Indians before the government forced the tribe to move north of Topeka in 1848.

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