Santa Fe Trail
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(limestone marker) "A Highway Between Nations"Sen. Thomas Hart Benton, 1825 (red granite marker) Santa Fe Trail1821 - 1872Marked by theDaugters of theAmerican Revolutionand theState of Missouri1909
New Santa Fe
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(black marker)New Santa Fe, also known as Little Santa Fe, was not much more than an Indian settlement when the first wagon trains passed through on the Santa Fe Trail in the early 1820's. A popular stopping place because of its grass, water and room for ca…
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Famous for its hospitality and as the western outpost of civilization on the Santa Fe Trail
Rededicated 1961 & 1974
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(Main Marker)Originally used as an outfitting store for wagon trains, this building was completed in 1850 by Indian traders George and William Ewing and was sold in 1854 to Albert Gallatin Boone for $7,000. Boone operated the store from 1854 to 1859.
Bo…
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Near this point John McCoy built a log trading post in 1833 which launched the settlement of Westport, with the town becoming the westernmost point of American civilization. From Westport, the Santa Fe, California, and Oregon Trails reached out as tentacles…
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The Santa Fe Trail extended nearly 1,000 miles overall from the Missouri River ports Southwest to Taos and Santa Fe. The first exploration and trading on the direct overland trail was conducted by the colonial French. The 1680 pueblo revolt in New Mexico cu…
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Strategically located where the Santa Fe Trail emerges from Glorieta Pass, Ca?oncito is where the New Mexico Governor Manuel Armijo weakly defended New Mexico against the American Army in 1846. In 1862, Union forces destroyed a Confederate supply train cont…
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Marked by theDaughters of theAmerican Revolutionand theState of Kansas
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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 Trails.
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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 restored and…