Douglas County, Kansas (KS), United States, North America
Latitude
39°02'N
Longitude
95°23'W
Lecompton
(luh-KAHMP-tuhn), village (1990 pop. 619), Douglas
co., NE Kansas, on the Kansas R., 10 mi/16 km
NW of Lawrence; 39°02'N 95°23'W. The pro-slavery Lecompton
Constitution was formulated here Sept. 1857, and it was rejected by
Kansas voters in 1858. Clinton L. reservoir and Clinton State Park to
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