Rest for the Weary

Rest for the Weary (HMD89)

Location: Olathe, KS 66061 Johnson County
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Country: United States of America
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N 38° 53.504', W 94° 48.075'

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"These is a romance about the stage coach that will never die. Its jolly driver with his six-in-hand, the merry passenger with his jokes ans stories, and the stations along the road where we used to stretch our tired limbs will long linger like a pleasant dream."
-Colonel Jared Sanderson, pioneer stage owner, 1900

The mid-1800s farm house before you served as a place of reset and repast for weary travelers on the Santa Fe Trail. From 1865 until 1869, horses were changed and passengers were fed in this house - a stop for the Barlow and Sanderson Stage Line.

James Beatty Mahaffie and his wife Lucinda were successful Indiana farmers who arrived in Kansas with their three children in 1857. Their farmstead sat on three stagecoach routes, running from Kansas City to Santa Fe, New Mexico Territory. Horses and stagecoaches moved people and mail until replaced by railroads in the 1870s.
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HM NumberHMD89
Series This marker is part of the Santa Fe Trail series
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Placed ByNational Park Service and Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop and Farm Foundation
Marker ConditionNo reports yet
Date Added Friday, September 19th, 2014 at 6:35pm PDT -07:00
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Locationbig map
UTM (WGS84 Datum)15S E 343783 N 4306304
Decimal Degrees38.89173333, -94.80125000
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 38° 53.504', W 94° 48.075'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds38° 53' 30.24" N, 94° 48' 4.50" W
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Area Code(s)913
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 1100 E Kansas City Rd, Olathe KS 66061, US
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