Eagle Scout projects honor history at Dunlap Colored Cemetery
A memory bench for seating and reflection was created as an Eagle Scout project in 2025 by William Schmidt of Manhattan.
A view from the memory bench at the Dunlap Colored Cemetery shows with historic maps and records, helpthe white crosses that Isaac Mahoney placed as an Eagle Scout project.

Eagle Scout projects honor history at Dunlap Colored Cemetery

Tue, 02/03/2026 - 12:30pm

Two Eagle Scout projects have recently added quiet but meaningful improvements to the Dunlap Colored Cemetery, a historic burial ground west of Dunlap that preserves the legacy of one of Kansas’ early African American communities and the Exoduster movement.The cemetery, chartered in 1894 with burials dating back to approximately 1880,

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