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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDCJ_battle-of-mine-creek_Pleasanton-KS.html
Of the approximately 600 Confederate casualties in this battle, many of those killed in action were buried in unmarked graves on this battlefield.
Most of the dead were from Marmaduke's Missouri Cavalry Division and Fagan's Arkansas Cavalry Div…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDCG_battle-of-mine-creek_Pleasanton-KS.html
Upon this rolling prairie and across Mine Creek occurred the largest Civil War battle in Kansas. It also was one of the largest cavalry battles of the Civil War. Nearly 8,000 Confederate soldiers clashed with 2,500 Union troops. The battle lasted …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDB8_santa-fe-and-oregon-trails_Overland-Park-KS.html
Both the Santa Fe and Oregon Trails crossed here, northeast to southwest, beginning 1821. The trails took separate courses farther west. A route through Kansas Territory was opened north of here in the 1830's after the founding of Westport, Mo. Lo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD8O_marais-du-cygne-martyrs-memorial_Pleasanton-KS.html
(Front):Rev. B. L. ReadJohn F. CampbellWilliam ColpetzerMichael RobertsonPatrick RossWilliam HairgroveAsa HairgroveCharles SniderWilliam A StilwellAmos HallAustin Hall(Side 2):On the 19th day of May 1858, the men whose namesappear on this monument…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD89_rest-for-the-weary_Olathe-KS.html
"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 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD88_elm-grove-campground_Olathe-KS.html
For over three decades starting in 1827, Elm Grove Campground, one mile east of near the bridge on Cedar Creek, was an important frontier camp site. Thousands of Santa Fe traders, Oregon and California emigrants, missionaries, mountain men, soldie…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD86_citizens-memorial-monument_Lawrence-KS.html
(Front Inscription):Dedicated to the memory ofthe one hundred and fifty citizenswho defenseless fellvictims to the inhuman ferocity of borderguerrillas led by the infamous Quantrellin his raid upon Lawrence.August 21st, 1863.Erected May 30, 1895(B…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD7W_trail-park_Baldwin-City-KS.html
This Angling Road is the Original Santa Fe Trail.Park Area Donated by I. and J. Stickle to Baker University in 1907.
D.A.R. Monument Commemorates the Dispersal of Free-State and Pro-Slavery Forces after the Battle of Black Jack.
Original Bro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD7V_santa-fe-trail_Gardner-KS.html
This marks the route of the Santa Fe Trail from Kansas City to Santa Fe 1822 - 1880.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD7U_baldwin_Baldwin-City-KS.html
Here, and for the next 300 miles west, Highway 56 roughly follows the old Santa Fe Trail, and frequently crosses it. White settlement began in this area in 1854, the year Kansas became a territory, and in 1855 the town of Palmyra was founded. When…