Ladore, Kansas

Ladore is a ghost town in Neosho County, Kansas, United States.

[1] The plat for the town was filed September 30, 1870 by the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad.

[2] In 1870 the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad founded Parsons, Kansas which quickly grew into a railway hub.

[3][4] Today, the only remaining vestige of the town is the Ladore Cemetery that is one-half mile east of Lake Parsons.

The town is most well known for the lynching of five outlaw men (William Ryun, Patrick Starr, Patsey Riley, Richard Pitkin and Alexander Matthews) on May 11, 1870, by a group of up to 300 people after the men had robbed and beaten several members of the town and raped three teenage girls.