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Built May 13-14, 1870 twenty-eight settlers, organized as the Buffalo Militia, built Fort Jewell following the killing of three white men at the mill dam on the Solomon River.

Sod was used for fort walls, which were four feet thick, seven feet high, enclosing a space fifty yards square, four blocks due east of this memorial.

Erected in honor of the pioneer settlers of Jewell County by Desire Tobey Sears Chapter D.A.R.

City Park, Jewell Jewell County Kansas
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