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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U9Q_wheat-capital-of-the-world-historical_Belle-Plaine-KS.html
Like waves across an ocean of grain, wind ripples through acre after acre of wheat in Sumner County. This area produces more hard red wheat than any other in the United States.
Mennonites who emigrated from Europe in the 1870's planted the firs…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TK5_chisholm-trail-historical_Caldwell-KS.html
This marks the Chisholm Trail, established in 1865 by
Jesse Chisholm
Hundreds of thousands of tons of freight and
over 3,000,000 head of stock passed over this
route in the years of its use.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TK1_chisholm-historical_Caldwell-KS.html
By the close of the Civil War in 1865, the cattle herds and cowboys from Texas began forging trails through Oklahoma and The Cherokee Strip to rail heads in Kansas. The most famous route of all was the Chisholm Trail. Caldwell Kansas became the fi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TK0_cowtown-law-enforcement-caldwells-early-government-historical_Caldwell-KS.html
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Cowtown Law Enforcement
On August 21, 1879, the Caldwell police force, consisting of a marshal and assistant marshal, was created by the city council. The new officers would daily take before the new police judge ruffians, cardsharks,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TIX_the-legend-of-mount-lookout-gunfire-kills-lawman-historical_Caldwell-KS.html
The Legend of Mount Lookout
Just south of town is the red sandstone bluff first known as Manning's Peak following the killing of a cowboy by that name in a gunfight in town in 1872. Manning's brothers refused to bury him in Kansas and mistakenl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TIW_those-who-came-before-historical_Caldwell-KS.html
This Kansas limestone relief sculpture, by Cherokee sculptor Eddie Morrison, depicts the variety of cultures which have occupied and influenced this area. Each group, from Native Americans to early pioneers, farmers, and adventurers, have shared t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TIU_prohibition-movement-historical_Caldwell-KS.html
By 1885 a reform movement had begun in this wild cowtown. The open saloons were being forced underground into "blind tigers", a place where liquor could be bought through a slot in the door but neither the seller nor the buyer could see the other.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TIT_shooting-up-main-street-historical_Caldwell-KS.html
On July 7, 1879, in the Moreland Saloon, Deputy Constable John Wilson and a citizen, George Flatt, cornered two cowboys named Woods and Adams. They had been firing their guns outside in celebration of being paid for a Texas cattle drive earlier in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TIS_the-railroad-influence-historical_Caldwell-KS.html
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad reached here from the North on June 13, 1880 and Caldwell joined Baxter Springs, Abilene, Newton, Wichita, Ellsworth and Dodge City in the pages of history as a Kansas cowtown. Hundreds of thousands of Te…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TIR_the-leland-hotel-historical_Caldwell-KS.html
The Leland Hotel stood here from 1880 to 1970 when a fire swept through the historic structure. It was built of brick, 3 stories high, 46 guest rooms each with its own running water, a billiard hall, barber shop, bridal chamber, barroom, dining ha…