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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/HMDKI_merriam-park_Merriam-KS.html
President Ulysses S. Grant dedicated a spectacular park on this site on July 1, 1880. Built by the Ft. Scott & Gulf Railroad and designed by the famed landscape architect George Kessler, the park covered 40 acres from Shawnee Mission Parkway to 65…