Mount Oread
Mount Oread /ˈɔːri.æd/ is a hill in Lawrence, Kansas. The University of Kansas is on it.[1] It is on the water divide between the Kansas and Wakarusa rivers. It was named after the Oread Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts. The hill was first called Hogback Ridge by many Lawrence residents until the Oread name was chosen in 1866.[2]
| 280px Old North College, the first building on the University of Kansas campus, at the northeast promontory of Mount Oread, looking north over Lawrence and the Kansas River, ca. 1867 | |
| Elevation | 1,037 ft (316 m) |
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| Geology | |
| Age of rock | Carboniferous |
For emigrants going west by wagon train on the Oregon Trail, "The Hill" was the next big topographical challenge after crossing the Wakarusa River near today's Haskell Indian Nations University.
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The United States Geological Survey says that Mount Oread is about 1,037 feet (316 m) above sea level. Downtown Lawrence is about 846 feet (258 m) above sea level. Mount Oread was whereWilliam Quantrill's raid into Lawrence on August 21, 1863, during the American Civil War, happened. The campus of the University of Kansas (KU) is on Mount Oread.
Related pages
References
- ↑ Blackmar, Frank Wilson (1912). Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Volume 2. Standard Publishing Company. p. 331.
- ↑ "This Week in KU History". Archived from the original on 2012-11-30.
Other websites
- Lawrence Kansas looking northeast from Mt. Oread (1859)
- Mt. Oread campus buildings Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine at the University of Kansas.
- TopoQuest map of Mt. Oread[dead link]
- Mount Oread trail route marker for KU GIS Day 2006 social geocoding pioneers