A Town That Was Founded By Freed Slaves: Nicodemus, Kansas.

[@ChrisHarden]

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[@livewire2759]

I must admit, I never thought I'd see anything in this county featured on YT, and you actually drove here to document it first hand. Nice job.

[@craignovy2090]

There has not been a video you have done where I have failed to learn new things and see things in a different way including the very area I happen to live in (Indianapolis metro). Excellent narration and video both ground and drone.

[@NHamel123]

My great grandpa had a farm about 3 miles south of the double silos at 2:45. Great people in that area.

[@68cutty]

thank you for taking the time to create this video

[@jetsons101]

Funny: I remember talking about Nicodemus in a Bible study class years back. Nothing beats a good small to medium town.....

[@MrThecroatian]

One of my late dad's cousins lives in Parsons, KS. I remember going through Kansas with my family 23 years ago on a baseball-themed bus trip, and I couldn't believe how desolate-looking the state was outside of KC and Topeka.

[@ChrisHarden]

I know right? Gotta wonder how many ghost towns there will be for future generations to explore.

[@mikemiller4239]

Good video, Chris. Love the small-town videos that you do, off the beaten path places. Keep up the good work.

[@dorado0359]

Great video...Thank you!

[@curtisstig6785]

love the work that you are putting in thank brother .dont stop

[@joebutchko2223]

This is where your morning slice of toast begins. A tiny portion of the products grown here find their way into every cupboard in north america and beyond.

[@sombra6153]

My late grandfather grew up on a farm in Graham County near Bogue. He told me about Nicodemus. He spoke of the people favorably. A railroad line might have increased vitality for a little while, but today there’s a lot of KS towns on the rail lines that are just as desolate. Interstate highways didn’t help. Nevertheless, Nicodemus should be preserved.

[@NHamel123]

We have our own, local call phone service. Almost never lose service

[@travelsfromdoodah949]

Alot of people are migrating from Wichita to what we refer to as dead towns,personally we are looking at argonia or Conway springs to move to.

[@jKLa]

Data for towns with less then a few hundred people is now unreliable due to new privacy measures employed for census 2020, and judging just by the number of what appears to be occupied homes, I would say there are probably 50 people or more in Nicodemus.

[@franksayre9011]

I saw a pump jack in your video. as it working? And: nice going!

[@pascalfriedmann1479]

Not too far from Hays, probably the only city in the area where lights won't go out for a while. Almost took a job there once.

[@ChrisHarden]

Not too far by Kansas standards that is.

[@albertmyers7176]

great vid

[@BoratWanksta]

I'm surprised you filmed a town, as small as Nicodemus. But this made for an interesting video! I wonder if in the future, you might film more places in Kansas like Salina, Manhattan, Lindsborg, and some others? I bet Hays would make for an interesting video, too. And it's interesting this town was settled by blacks. In Illinois not far from Kankakee, Hopkins Park and Pembroke Township was settled by blacks as a farming area. I remember reading that town was slow to take off, due to the fact electrical lines and plumbing lines were slow to be laid towards this town for many years.

[@jKLa]

Nicodemus probably has several times 14 people, just from the number of homes that appear to be occupied. New privacy protection techniques using micro area data scrambling employed by the census mean that info towns with less then a few hundred people is unreliable, and is almost meaningless for a town as small as Nicodemus.

[@gregelliott5016]

Looks clean and kept up on everything

[@jesseharper982]

Jesse my dad married my mother from Nicodemus Lorena Harper used to be Jones

[@45AMT]

LOL Yep Kansas is small. ND is smaller population wise. About 760,000 I lived there for years. More cows or Buffalo than people there. You cow tipper you 🙂This place even looks like eastern ND. Windy, flat, cold and unpopulated. Pretty cool history though. Never heard of it before this video.

[@jerrysullivan8424]

I counted more than 14 houses so there may be more people living there?

[@Nonogobberboy13]

Make more Kansas videos Chris make more Kansas !

[@bobwallace9814]

Folks probably don't know that there is an entire nation founded by freed slaves. The country is Liberia of which the Capitol is Monrovia.

[@williamperkins9125]

It’s a little more murky than that. It was founded by a society run by white Americans for the purpose of relocating freed slaves out of the United States due to concerns that they would never acclimate to society.

[@bobwallace9814]

@@williamperkins9125 That was the prevailing attitude across America at the time. Lincoln's original plan was to relocate all to Central America and even Africa but his friend Frederick Douglass talked him out of it by reassuring that they would assimilate well. But back to Liberia. How far has that country advanced over the last 150 years? Would you take the family for a vacation to Monrovia?

[@Zorazora1234]

@@bobwallace9814You know the natives who inhabited the land they name Libera really resented uppity black folks from the US moving back and taking their land ! … it didn’t work !

[@fleckflex5430]

Rock me Nicodemus!

[@thegreatindoorswithedandmi7880]

Your Michigan videos usually discuss people leaving areas due to racial differences. This shows a area where the town was populated by African Americans. Nice twist.

[@ChrisHarden]

Wasn’t intentional just happened to pass through this place on my way to Colorado and I learned about it afterwards.

[@NHamel123]

Vending machines there have the coldest pop for 20 miles.

[@jameschristiansson3137]

Under 15 population qualifies a town for a cool video? Liked commented (already) subscribed.

[@jameschristiansson3137]

Harden City, Oklahoma is a must!

[@ChrisHarden]

@@jameschristiansson3137 Lol. Never heard of that place. Maybe though!

[@jKLa]

Actually micro area data scrambling employed for privacy purposes in census 2020 means data for towns under a few hundred people is unreliable. There are probably at least several times more people then 14 in Nicodemus today.

[@wesleybarrett9502]

I am from KC Metro area. I have driven past. here once but I had to keep going. I might consider going back to look at it. I been to several smaller towns in Western Kansas. However Fort Dodge is ones of the smallest I was inside of. Fort Dodge is a smaller retirement community for soldiers just 10 miles east of Dodge City.

[@SynIMPFML666]

I've been there, and grew up with folks in Wichita who were from there. The black exodus was real

[@moparman8254]

farming is hard work & u have to have lots of land to make it today

[@loronetrulliot2606]

Ive been there a lot of History

[@My3bkaht]

why people live here? why you cant move to Cali or if you trump voters into florida omg

[@livewire2759]

Somebody has to grow your food for you... You like bread, right? You're welcome. Farmers need support too, like mechanics... that's what I do in the very county featured in this video.

[@jKLa]

It's farm country with it's own way of life and very strong sense of community that keeps people with a rich social life. There are probably several times more then 14 residents in Nicodemus today btw. Privacy measures employed for census 2020 using micro area data scrambling mean that data for towns with less then a few hundred people is unreliable.

[@jKLa]

Many larger small towns in the plains have thousands of people Some are even growing! 😳

[@jerrysullivan8424]

@@jKLa I agree with you, I counted more than 14 houses in this video.

[@jKLa]

@@jerrysullivan8424 glad you noticed that too.