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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVKV_merriam-park-george-kessler_Merriam-KS.html
With Kansas City becoming a focal point of trade and transportation, the Fort Scott and Gulf Railroad company saw the need for an amusement park to entertain the booming population in the area. The company purchased forty acres to establish Merria…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVJX_merriam-community-center_Merriam-KS.html
The original limestone building, was built in 1911. The two brick additions were added in 1938 and 1951. Merriam School housed elementary and high school students until 1922, when the high school students began attending Shawnee Mission Rural High…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVJR_the-founding-of-campbellton_Merriam-KS.html
With the opening of the Kansas Territory in 1854, people from everywhere began to converge on Kansas. The fertile and inexpensive land available in the territory attracted David Gee Campbell, a Tennessee native. Campbell loaded his wife and their …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVJQ_the-overland-trails_Merriam-KS.html
Historic Frontier Trails cut through the territory now known as Merriam. Hundreds of thousands of people emigrated [sic - immigrated] to the western frontiers along the Oregon and California Trails. The Santa Fe, Oregon and California Trails all s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVJP_shawnee-friends-mission_Merriam-KS.html
Religious missionaries of nearly all denominations were present throughout Indian settlements as early as the 1680's. Missionaries were intent on converting the Native Americans to Christianity. Quakers (The Society of Friends) had worked among th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVJO_the-people-of-the-south-wind-the-coming-of-the-shawnee_Merriam-KS.html
From the late 1600's until the early 1800's, the Kansa (or Kaw) Indians lived in northeast Kansas. The Indian word Kansa means "People of the South Wind," and both the state of Kansas and the Kansas River take their name from this tribe. The Ka…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOJJ_korean-war-veterans-memorial_Overland-Park-KS.html
Kansas honors her uniformedsons and daughterswho answered theircountry's call todefend a countrythey did not knowand a people theyhad never met Over a million and a half U.S. Soldiersserved in the Korean War, 1950-53.36,940 lost their lives, in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN38_up-in-smoke_Olathe-KS.html
Thanks to archaeological digs carried out in the early 1980s, we know that the Mahaffies' original smokehouse stood about 15 feet behind you, closer to the ice house. Smokehouses, like ice houses, offered a way to preserve food. In the nineteen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN36_pit-stop_Olathe-KS.html
Why does a race car driver pull into the pits, or a truck driver leave the highway to visit a truck stop? The Mahaffie stagecoach stop offered similar services. Need repairs or new tires? The federal census for 1865 lists a "R. Vickard" - occup…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN33_a-survivor_Olathe-KS.html
This barn is thought to be the oldest structure standing on the Mahaffie farm. While the siding was replaced at least twice, the frame underneath probably dates to about 1860, when the Mahaffies established the farm and their first home. In 2009, …
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