Kansas: Kansas Historical Society
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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1040_waconda-great-spirit-spring_Cawker-City-KS.html
Many moons ago, so runs an Indian legend, Waconda, a beautiful Princess, fell in love with a brave of another tribe. Prevented from marriage by a blood feud, this warrior embroiled the tribes in battle. During the fight an arrow struck him as he stood on th…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM106W_geodetic-center-of-north-america_Osborne-KS.html
On a ranch 18 miles southeast of this marker a bronze plate marks the most important spot on this continent to surveyors and map makers. Engraved in the bronze is a cross-mark and on the tiny point where the lines cross depend the surveys of a sixth of the …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM107C_ellsworth-the-cowtown-and-fort_Ellsworth-KS.html
When the Union Pacific built through here in 1867 this was buffalo country. As the engines chugged on west, the Hays newspaper reported: "Passengers on the cars between here and Ellsworth have almost daily fine sport shooting at buffalo, immense herds of th…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM11E4_when-coronado-came-to-kansas_Liberal-KS.html
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, with 36 soldiers and Father Juan de Padilla, marched north from the Rio Grande valley in the spring of 1541. Coronado's objective was the land of Quivira, described to the Spaniards as a fabulously wealthy kingdom where gold w…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM11E5_arkalon-and-the-samson-of-the-cimarron_Liberal-KS.html
Many Kansas towns originated as potential railroad centers. Three miles west of this marker Arkalon was founded in 1888 at the Cimarron river crossing of the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska railway, a part of the Rock Island. Town lots were cheap, and people f…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM11E6_the-lone-tree-incident_Meade-KS.html
During the first half of the 19th century the U.S. government, in response to public pressure for land and resources, began a program of concentrating Indian tribes on reservations. After the Civil War, an ever growing number of settlers made it difficult f…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM11E7_the-road-to-santa-fe_Dodge-City-KS.html
The Santa Fe trail, extending 750 miles from the Kansas City area to the old Spanish settlement of Santa Fe, was the great overland trade route of the 1820's to 1870s. Its commercial use began in 1821, when William Becknell headed west with a pack train fro…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM11EC_camp-criley-1872_Garfield-KS.html
Camp Criley was established in 1872 as a supply station for workmen building the Santa Fe Railroad, name changed to Garfield in 1873 by pioneers settling here.This park was planned in 1880 and the first trees planted in April 1882. The Band Shell erected in…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM11ED_birthplace-of-farm-credit_Larned-KS.html
This 280 acres was collateral for the nation's first Federal Land Bank loan made on April 10, 1917 to farmer-stockman A. L. Stockwell. In those days, farmers and ranchers found credit hard to come by. If available, it was often very expensive . . . as much …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM11EY_fort-zarah_Great-Bend-KS.html
In 1825 the Federal government surveyed the Santa Fe trail, great trade route from western Missouri to Santa Fe. Treaties with Kansas and Osage Indians safeguarded the eastern end of the road but Plains Tribes continued to make raids. Fort Zarah, at this po…