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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN14_check-that-cornfield_Olathe-KS.html
According to the agricultural census of that year, Beatty Mahaffie produced 2000 bushels of corn on this farm in 1865. The average Johnson County farm produced 667 bushels. This small field is slightly less than one acre in size. With forty bushel…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN0A_baptiste-mary-ann-peoria_Paola-KS.html
Dedicated to a couple who helped found and shape Paola, Baptiste Peoria, chief of the Confederated Peoria Tribes and his wife Mary Ann Isaacs Dagenet Peoria chose to take a leadership role in developing Paola. Most of the Paola Town Company were m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN01_miami-county-history_Paola-KS.html
1803 - Louisiana Purchase, Native American Lands
1854 - Kansas Territory established & open settlement began
1861 - Kansas Statehood - Miami County renamed from Lykins County
1873 - First courthouse on this site converted from a former pu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMYI_trail-campground-to-farm-to-park_Olathe-KS.html
In 1857, Newton Ainsworth claimed this land and allowed the trail travelers to continue camping here. A decade later, the railroads began to make their way west and the great overland trails became a part of history. The need for camping at Lone E…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMYG_the-travelers_Olathe-KS.html
The TravelersFor more than four decades, tens of thousands of travelers camped here. The Lone Elm campground was one or two nights out from the frontier "jumping off" points on the Missouri River. The great lone elm tree that gave this frontier ca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMY6_a-most-desirable-spot-for-camping_Olathe-KS.html
The Lone Elm CampgroundThe land here at Lone Elm met the three requirements for a stopover for travelers on the trail...wood, water, and grass. Wood for campfires and wagon repairs, water for the support of people and animals, and grass for the gr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMY4_roads-to-the-west_Olathe-KS.html
The Santa Fe TrailThe Santa Fe Trail began in 1821 when William Becknell led a small group of men on a trading expedition from frontier Missouri to colonial Santa Fe. Mexico had recently declared its independence from Spain and abolished years of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMY3_lone-elm-park_Olathe-KS.html
"Travelers came to look upon it as an old friend - they felt an attachment for the tree that had so often sheltered and shaded them from storm and sun..."W.W.H. Davis (1853)
Lone Elm Park was purchased by the City of Olathe in 2000 to provide p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMY1_trails-west_Olathe-KS.html
The oxen and Conestoga wagon sculpture was originally commissioned in 1994 for use at the Kansas Visitors Center at 119th & Strang Line Road. When the Center closed in 2002 the sculpture was awarded to the City of Olathe. The sculpture has been re…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMXY_lone-elm-campground_Olathe-KS.html
Lone Elm is one of the most historic and important frontier trail camp sites in America and was used as a campground and rendezvous point for all three of our nation's great western roads to the frontier.....the Santa Fe, Oregon, and California Tr…