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Salina’s Stockade was built in Salina Kansas to provide the residents with protection from the American Indians in the area many of whom were hostile toward white settlement. While Salina had been raided in 1862 by Indians and then Confederate guerrillas it was not until May 1864 when residents decided they needed to build a stockade for protection. On May 17 1864 a makeshift stockade consisting of wagons placed in a circle around the town’s flagpole was erected.