Quindaro Ruins aims for national historic landmark status [Video]

The Quindaro Ruins is now on the path to becoming a National Historic Landmark.Once a thriving townsite where Wyandot Indians, white abolitionists, and Black Americans co-existed, the ruins are a testament to a time of freedom and equality.”This is where it all transpired, too bad people in Wyandotte County didn’t preserve the buildings that were down in that area,” said Corranzo Lewis Jr., a historian and native of Quindaro.Quindaro, located close to the Missouri River, was a crucial gateway to freedom in the Underground Railroad, aiding enslaved Missourians in their escape to the free state of Kansas. “This is why it’s so important to make this an historic landmark, and I pray, I’ve been doing it for 40 years,” Lewis Jr. said. “It’s been worked on for so many years, and now God has blessed us.” A bipartisan effort is now underway to make what’s left of Quindaro into a …