Dunavant, Kansas

Dunavant is an unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Kansas, United States.

On September 13, 1856, James H. Lane, leader of Free-State men in Kansas, besieged a group of Border Ruffians in the log buildings near Dunavant at Hickory Point (also known as Stony Point), a proslavery settlement on the Ft. Leavenworth-Ft. Riley military road.

[6] A Kansas Historical Marker for the Battle of Hickory Point stands a half mile away, on today's U.S. Route 59.

from the Battle of Hickory Point marker, is the farm on which painter John Steuart Curry was born.

[10] Later in life, John Steuart Curry would become known for his painting of abolitionist John Brown at the Kansas State Capitol, and also for his painting Law vs. Mob Rule at the Department of Justice in Washington, DC, in which a judge in black robes protects a man from a lynch mob.