South Park

South Park was located on the north end of Merriam between Overland Park and Shawnee. South Park was a community of African Americans that had been populated by freed slaves and their descendants as they migrated north during the late 1890s and early 1900s. Read more about South Park.

Source:
Rein, Barbara. "The Black Comunity of South Park, Merriam, Kansas: a Part of the Whole". In Student Papers in Local History. Overland Park: Johnson County Center for Local History, 1986. p. 147.

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