Wagons bound for Oregon and California left Independence starting in the
1840s and developed a trail to this location. Others started across the prairie from St. Joseph, and Fort Leavenworth. All of that traffic merged here at the junction of the . . . — — Map (db m253325) HM
Camping was not recreation as it is today. It was a way of life from the time immigrants left their old homes until they reached the new ones in the West. Freighters and drovers also lived outdoors as they moved their goods along the trail.
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Built in 1857 as a ranch house, it is the only remaining unaltered station still standing in its original location. Erected by the Kansas State Historical Society. National Pony Express Centennial Association Dwight D. Eisenhower Chairman . . . — — Map (db m246094) HM
This building, constructed in 1857 by G.H. Hollenberg on his ranch here on the Oregon Trail, was a station on the Pony Express route in 1860-1861. It is believed to be the only such station which has remained unaltered on its original site. — — Map (db m53293) HM
Hollenberg Station and Transportation
By the time Hollenberg Station was begun in 1857 or 1858, Gerat Hollenberg
already had years of experience in operating at road ranch on the Oregon-California Trail. A native of Germany, he had been drawn . . . — — Map (db m253085) HM
Hollenberg's Land- Gerat Hollenberg acquired 160 acres of land in 1857 or 1858. He bought it with a land warrant given by the United States government to a veteran of the War of 1812.
1. Hollenberg Station - The building also was known as . . . — — Map (db m253083) HM
Transportation is the movement of people or goods from one location to another. Long before the Europeans first came to this area in the 1500s, the native peoples were engaged in transportation. On foot they followed trails that had been cut by . . . — — Map (db m253088) HM
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of May 30, 1854 created the territories of Nebraska and Kansas, which had to be surveyed before settlement of the prairies could proceed. On May 8, 1855 Charles A. Manners set a cast iron monument on the bluff west of the . . . — — Map (db m80110) HM
With the faith and courage of
their forefathers who made
possible the freedom of these
United States
The Boy Scouts of America
dedicate this replica of the
Statue of Liberty as a pledge
of everlasting fidelity and
loyalty . . . — — Map (db m81059) HM
