| Kansas (Barton County), Pawnee Rock — Pawnee Rock |
| | A mile northeast is Pawnee Rock, a famous landmark on the Santa Fe Trail. Considered the mid-point of the long road between Missouri and New Mexico. Pawnee Rock was a symbol of challenges overcome. Many early travelers mentioned it in their journals, and many of them scratched their names into its soft surface. Here young Kit Carson, standing guard one dark night in 1826, is said to have shot his own mule, mistaking it for a Pawnee. Perhaps it was his unkind companions who named Pawnee Rock to . . . — Map (db m11766) |
| Kansas (Douglas County), Baldwin City — 8 — Baldwin |
| | 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 Baker University was established on the outskirts in 1858 a new town sprang up. It was named for John Baldwin, an Ohio capitalist who in 1857 hauled a steam sawmill in over the trail. by 1863, Palmyra had merged with Baldwin.
Local Settlers were . . . — Map (db m20073) |
| Kansas (Douglas County), Baldwin City — Black Jack Park |
| | (Main marker):
South of this park are 18 acres of virgin prairie. Purchased 1967 by Douglas County from Russell Hays for a permanent prairie preserve and historic site. Evidence of Santa Fe Trail plainly visible. Original site of D.A.R, marker was near pioneer town of Black Jack ½ mile east. (D.A.R. marker):
Santa Fe Trail 1822 - 1872 marked by the Daughters of the American Revolution and the State of Kansas 1906 — Map (db m20062) |
| Kansas (Douglas County), Baldwin City — Trail Park |
| | 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 Bronze Plaque Stolen in 1967.
Replaced in Marble by S.F.T. Hist. Soc. — Map (db m20075) |
| Kansas (Douglas County), Centropolis — Globe |
| |
Santa Fe Trail followed high land
to the SW of this marker.
Two miles south of here the Marion Town
Company laid out the Town of Marion
in honor of Gen. Francis Marion, "The
Swamp Fox" of Revolutionary War fame.
Town well, Blacksmith Shop, two stores
and later a church.
Post Office had intermittent existence:
As Marion — Nov. 1857 to May 1867
June 1870 to Aug. 1881
As Globe — Aug. 1881 to Dec. 1894
Feb. 1895 to Nov. 1900 — Map (db m19729) |
| Kansas (Douglas County), Globe — Santa Fe Trail Crossed Here |
| |
D.A.R. Marker is near the site of
the Baden Post Office
which had intermittent existence
between 1883 and 1891.
Simmons Point,
a stagecoach relay station,
was 2 ½ miles east on the Old Trail. — Map (db m19728) |
| Kansas (Gray County), Howell — Campsite of the U.S. Survey Team Sept. 10-21, 1825 |
| | Camping near this location Sept. 10, 1825, the survey team remained through September 21 waiting for a courier with information from the U.S. Government as to how to proceed further. West of the 100th meridian which surveyor Joseph Brown mistakingly identified being at this point and south of the Arkansas River was Mexican territory where the survey team had no permission to enter. Receiving no such information, the team was divided with commissioner George Sibley, surveyor Brown, interpreter . . . — Map (db m19788) |
| Kansas (Johnson County), Gardner — 6 — Overland Trails |
| | Here US-56 lies directly on the route of the Oregon-California and Santa Fe trails. Nearby, the trails branched. On a rough sign pointing northwest were the words, "Road to Oregon." Another marker directed travelers southwest along the road to Santa Fe.
Between 1840 and 1870 thousands of settlers, miners, and soldiers plodded the 2,000 miles of the Oregon-California Trail from the "jumping off" towns on the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean. Diseases such as cholera and smallpox were the . . . — Map (db m21669) |
| Kansas (Johnson County), Gardner — Santa Fe Trail |
| | This marks the route of the Santa Fe Trail from Kansas City to Santa Fe 1822 - 1880. — Map (db m20074) |
| Kansas (Johnson County), Olathe — Elm Grove Campground |
| | 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, soldiers and '49ers camped at Elm Grove including such frontier notables as John C Fremont, William Bent, Tom Fitzpatrick, Francis Parkman, and Philip St. George Cooke.
Elm Grove Campground, originally named caravan grove, began in 1827 as a result of the . . . — Map (db m20093) |
| Kansas (Johnson County), Olathe — Rest for the Weary |
| | "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 pleasant dream."
-Colonel Jared Sanderson, pioneer stage owner, 1900 The mid-1800s farm house before you served as a place of reset and repast for weary travelers on the Santa Fe Trail. From 1865 until 1869, horses were changed and passengers were . . . — Map (db m20096) |
| Kansas (Johnson County), Olathe — Santa Fe Trail |
| | This marks the route of the Santa Fe Trail from Kansas City to Santa Fe 1822 - 1880 — Map (db m20065) |
| Kansas (Johnson County), Overland Park — Santa Fe and Oregon Trails |
| | 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. Long after that became the main one, this route continued in use by pioneers and tradesmen out of Independence, Mo. — Map (db m20213) |
| Missouri (Jackson County), Kansas City — McCoy's Trading Post |
| | 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 of the nation's growth, extending to the Pacific Coast and into Mexico. Westport's street's, shops and hotels bustled with traders, trappers, missionaries, Indians and gold prospectors forging west. Kit Carson, Jim Bridger and John Sutter . . . — Map (db m21064) |
| Missouri (Jackson County), Kansas City — New Santa Fe / Trail Remnants |
| | (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 camping, it became a wagon train outfitting station on the Santa Fe, Oregon, and California Trails. Originally called Blue Camp 20 because it was near the Little Blue River and approximately 20 miles from Independence, Missouri, the . . . — Map (db m20724) |
| Missouri (Jackson County), Kansas City — Original Site of Harris House — 1844 - 1912 |
| | Famous for its hospitality
and as the western outpost
of civilization
on the Santa Fe Trail
Rededicated 1961 & 1974 — Map (db m20819) |
| Missouri (Jackson County), Kansas City — Santa Fe Trail — Camino de Santa Fe — 1821 - 1880 |
| | (limestone marker)
"A Highway Between Nations"
Sen. Thomas Hart Benton, 1825
(red granite marker)
Santa Fe Trail
1821 - 1872
Marked by the
Daugters of the
American Revolution
and the
State of Missouri
1909
New Santa Fe — Map (db m20610) |
| Missouri (Jackson County), Kansas City — The Albert G. Boone Store |
| |
(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.
Born in Kentucky in 1806, Boone was a mountain man, trader, and grandson of the famous Daniel Boone. In 1838, he received a license to trade with the Delaware, Kansa, Shawnee and Kickapoo tribes. His ability to speak fluent . . . — Map (db m20921) |
| Missouri (Jackson County), Kansas City — The French and the Santa Fe Trail |
| | 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 cut off Spanish trade with the Southwestern Indians, and French traders were quick to fill the void. The Illinois French were then pushing up the Missouri River and far to the West, looking for gold and silver - and beaver for hats for Louis . . . — Map (db m21069) |
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