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Federal government endorses Civil War commemorative plan for western Missouri and eastern Kansas

Federal officials have approved a regional Civil War commemorative plan.

The proposal, drafted by local organizers of the Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area, seeks to showcase the local conflicts that preceded the larger war. It recently received U.S. Interior Department sanction.

The federal district, established in 2006, now is entitled to apply for additional funds.

Organizers want to use the money to coordinate events interpreting the border war and Civil War era across a 41-county area in western Missouri and eastern Kansas....
Read entire article at Kansas City Star