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Santa Fe Trail Historical Markers
This is an important trade route from New Franklin, Missouri (and parts west as the railroad moved west) to Santa Fe, New Mexico. The trail was in use from 1822 until the late 1880s.
The Lone Elm Campground
The land here at Lone Elm met the three requirements for a stopover for travelers on the trail...wood, water, and grass. Wood for campfires and wagon repairs, water for the support of people and animals, and grass for . . . — — Map (db m34342) HM
On Old U.S. 56 0.1 miles east of West 151st Street, on the right when traveling west.
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, . . . — — Map (db m20093) HM
On Lone Elm Park Drive, on the right when traveling south.
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 . . . — — Map (db m34334) HM
On Lone Elm Park Drive, on the right when traveling east.
"Travelers came to look upon it as an old friend - they felt an attachment for the tree that had so often sheltered and shaded them from storm and sun..."
W.W.H. Davis (1853)
Lone Elm Park was purchased by the City of Olathe in 2000 to . . . — — Map (db m34339) HM
On North Sunset Drive at East Kansas City Road, on the left when traveling north on North Sunset Drive.
James and Lucinda Mahaffie served stagecoach passengers and other travelers at this farm starting in 1858. The stone farmhouse was built in 1865. Today, Mahaffie Stagecoach & Farm Historic Site is the only stop left on the Santa Fe Trail that is . . . — — Map (db m312507) HM
On East Kansas City Road, on the right when traveling west.
"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 . . . — — Map (db m20096) HM
The Santa Fe Trail
The Santa Fe Trail began in 1821 when William Becknell led a small group of men on a trading expedition from frontier Missouri to colonial Santa Fe. Mexico had recently declared its independence from Spain and abolished . . . — — Map (db m34340) HM
The Travelers
For more than four decades, tens of thousands of travelers camped here. The Lone Elm campground was one or two nights out from the frontier "jumping off" points on the Missouri River. The great lone elm tree that gave this . . . — — Map (db m34355) HM
In 1857, Newton Ainsworth claimed this land and allowed the trail travelers to continue camping here. A decade later, the railroads began to make their way west and the great overland trails became a part of history. The need for camping at Lone . . . — — Map (db m34357) HM
On Lone Elm Park Drive, on the left when traveling south.
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 . . . — — Map (db m34337) HM
On 80th Street at Santa Fe Drive, on the right when traveling west on 80th Street.
Images Art Gallery has proudly designed and painted this mural depicting "A Day on the Trail." The Santa Fe Trail was a two-way trail of commerce and cultural exchange between the United States and Mexico from 1821 to the 1870's. Oxen or mules . . . — — Map (db m99304) HM
[Inset]
"from 'Sappling Grove' where there is an excellent fountain spring & a very good place to camp.. The road runs a little round on the high ridge."
The Santa Fe Trail began in 1821 when William Becknell and a small . . . — — Map (db m100228) HM
On 151st Street, on the right when traveling east.
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 . . . — — Map (db m20213) HM
The Santa Fe Trail forked into two routes as it headed south from Westport. Along the routes were campgrounds for trail travelers — to the northeast of the junction was Sapling Grove and the southwest was a campground called Flat Rock or . . . — — Map (db m100264) HM
On 80th Street at Santa Fe Drive, on the right when traveling west on 80th Street.
Imagine seeing Santa Fe Trail wagon trains coursing through Overland Park! Around you swirls the sights and sounds of wagons creaking, oxen braying, and wagon masters shouting commands. You are standing between two historic branches of the Santa . . . — — Map (db m99307) HM
The Santa Fe, Oregon, and California trails proved to be both challenging and exhilarating for the travelers in the caravans passing through this junction along one of the Westport routes. Letters and diaries are filled with adventures and . . . — — Map (db m100260) HM
On Shawnee Mission Parkway near Melrose Lane, on the right when traveling east.
Located today at 59th Terrace and Bluejacket in the city of Shawnee, Gum Springs was the site of the Shawnee Indian church and meeting house, as well as the location of several excellent springs, all near the intersection of the Fort Leavenworth . . . — — Map (db m50693) HM
On Shawnee Mission Parkway near Melrose Lane, on the right when traveling east.
The Santa Fe Trail went through two decades of change in the Kansas City area before evolving into it's final form by about 1840. In the early years of that decade it also became the route of the Oregon Trail and California Trail.
1821 - . . . — — Map (db m50679) HM
On Shawnee Mission Parkway near Melrose Lane, on the right when traveling east.
Richard Williams was born in Tennessee in 1830, son of Judge Arthur Williams. As a young man, Richard came to Johnson County in the 1850s, employed as a surveyor by the U.S. government. During the 1850s and early 1860s, Dick Williams was a . . . — — Map (db m50691) HM
On U.S. 50/400 0.1 miles west of Country Heights Road, on the left when traveling west.
In the spring of 1816 Auguste P. Chouteau's hunting party traveling east with a winter's catch of furs was attacked near the Arkansas river by 200 Pawnees. Retreating to what was once an island five miles southwest of this marker the hunters . . . — — Map (db m65747) HM
On U.S. 50/400 east of Road W2, on the left when traveling east.
Looking east, up and over the bank of the ditch, one can see the wagon ruts of the Santa Fe Trail. You will notice a difference in the color and texture of the grass in the ruts. This is characteristic of the ruts along the trail. Between Pawnee . . . — — Map (db m65755) HM
On Riverside Drive east of Scott Avenue, on the left when traveling east.
This cut is part of the old Santa Fe Trail. Many years ago the Missouri River came near this site and thousands of early settlers were ferried here. Their wagons and teams climbed this hill and headed west toward Santa Fe and the Oregon . . . — — Map (db m66712) HM
On Riverside Drive, on the left when traveling east.
The stone monuments to the west mark the trace of the original road leading up from the river. For many pioneers, traders, settlers and soldiers, this was the beginning of the Oregon and Santa Fe Trails leading to the Far West. The steamboat and . . . — — Map (db m66713) HM
On Old U.S. 81 0.3 miles south of Comanche Road, on the right when traveling south.
In 1825 President James Monroe approved a bill providing for the survey of the Santa Fe Trail from Missouri to New Mexico and the making of treaties to insure friendly relations with Indians along the route. A mile west of this sign, on Dry Turkey . . . — — Map (db m53059) HM
On 22nd Avenue 1.9 miles south of U.S. 56, on the left when traveling south.
When the Cherokee Trail group arrived at
the junction of their new wagon road from
Oklahoma and the Santa Fe Trail, the company
devised a post office, wrapped news of their
arrival and accomplishment in pasteboard and
oilcloth, then placed it . . . — — Map (db m250438) HM
On 22nd Avenue 1.9 miles south of U.S. 56, on the left when traveling south.
The Running Turkey Creek crossing and campsite were an oasis for early trail travelers and in use by the time of the earliest survey of the Santa Fe Trail in 1825. The campsite became the location of the Running Turkey Creek trading ranch, also . . . — — Map (db m250412) HM
On Main Street (U.S. 56) near Wood Street, on the right when traveling west.
"Those who have occassion to stop at Council Grove, on the Santa Fe Road, will do well to 'put up' with Charles A. Gilkey [Hays' hotel clerk] [?] host of the Hayes House. [They] cannot but help feeling quite at home.
- Kansas Press, July . . . — — Map (db m45123) HM
On Neosho Street (State Highway 177) at Elm Street, on the right when traveling south on Neosho Street.
This hardwood tree was part of the original grove that provided shelter, and wood for wagon repairs for travelers on the Santa Fe Trail.
The grove was a continuous strip of timber near one mile in width with a rich variety of trees. The town of . . . — — Map (db m44824) HM
On Main Street (U.S. 56) at 2nd Street, on the right when traveling east on Main Street.
This hardwood tree was part of the original grove that provided shelter, and wood for wagon repairs for travelers on the Santa Fe Trail.
The grove was a continuous strip of timber near one mile in width with a rich variety of trees. The town of . . . — — Map (db m44964) HM
On Main Street (U.S. 56) near Union Street, on the right when traveling east.
This hardwood tree was part of the original grove that provided shelter, and wood for wagon repairs for travelers on the Santa Fe Trail.
The grove was a continuous strip of timber near one mile in width with a rich variety of trees. The town of . . . — — Map (db m44966) HM
On Main Street (U.S. 56) at Neosho Street (Kansas Highway 177), on the right when traveling west on Main Street.
"In his stock were found every known variety of goods for use on the frontier, from ox yokes and repairs to cambric needles, from small boxes of pills to barrels of whiskey."
- Conn Store Clerk William Shamleffer
For traders on the Santa Fe . . . — — Map (db m45088) HM
On Main Street (U.S. 56) near 2nd Street, on the left when traveling east.
The hunting grounds of the Kaw (Kansa) and Osage Indians were located here when Americans and Mexicans began hauling trade goods over the Santa Fe Trail in 1821.
In 1825, in response to traders and merchants who eagerly sought trade with . . . — — Map (db m44981) HM
On Neosho Street (State Highway 177) near Elm Street, on the right when traveling south.
This picture of Custer Elm was taken in 1928 and at that time the tree was estimated to be 300 years old. Dutch elm disease caused it to die in the early 1970's.
General George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Calvary [sic] regiment camped beneath . . . — — Map (db m44938) HM WM
On Mission Street at Main Street (U.S. 56), on the right when traveling south on Mission Street.
In commemoration of the
home coming to Council Grove
June 27 - July 2
celebrating the
one hundredth anniversary
of the first pack train to pass
over the Santa Fe Trail,
led by Wm. Becknell — — Map (db m45078) HM
On Main Street (U.S. 56) near Wood Street, on the right when traveling west.
Built in 1857 by Seth Hays on the site of the first permanent building (1848) in Council Grove. The original log cabin was also known as the Hays House. Used continuously as a restaurant, this building was also used for church services, court . . . — — Map (db m45133) HM
On Belfry Street near Hays Street, on the right when traveling north.
"He appears rather an intelligent man, speaks nine different languages. He has lived a Hermit some thirty five years... Last winter he lived five months in a hollow tree near Westport, Mo. He refuses to eat bread or meat; his food consists of corn . . . — — Map (db m45206) HM
On Mission Street near Huffaker Street, on the right when traveling north.
"Great father, you white people treat us like a flock of turkeys. You chase us from one steam and then chase us to another stream and then to another stream. Soon you will chase us over the mountains and into the ocean
- Al-le-ga-wa-ho, . . . — — Map (db m45053) HM
On Main Street (U.S. 56) at Chautauqua Street, on the right when traveling west on Main Street.
"Last chance for beans, bacon and whiskey."
During the 1857 trading season, this building housed a store on the edge of Council Grove. Here was the last opportunity for the trader bound for Santa Fe to purchase supplies before venturing into the . . . — — Map (db m45396) HM
On Main Street (U.S. 56) at Union Street, on the left when traveling east on Main Street.
N.S.D.A.R. Memorial
to the
Pioneer Mothers
of the
Covered Wagon Days
The National
Old Trails Road
Here East met West
when the Old Santa Fe Trail
was established August 10, 1825
at a council between the
United . . . — — Map (db m44822) HM
On Neosho Street (State Highway 177) at Main Street (U.S. 56), on the left when traveling south on Neosho Street.
Built by Malcolm Conn for mercantile business, it was the second pioneer business erected in the present business district.
First known as "Stone Store", later as "Pioneer Store."
Travelers traveling the Santa Fe Trail were welcome to sleep . . . — — Map (db m45144) HM
"The creek bank, which is short and steep, made of some little detention in the crossing of the wagons, they had to double teams several times. It is amusing here to hear the shouting of the wagoners to their animals, whooping and hallowing; the . . . — — Map (db m44941) HM
On Main Street (U.S. 56) at 5th Street, on the left when traveling east on Main Street.
"Only jail in early days on the Santa Fe Trail. Within its walls desperados, border ruffians, and robbers were held. During the Indian Raid of 1859 two Indians were taken out and hanged by a mob. A bad man, Jack McDowell, was hanged from the Neosho . . . — — Map (db m44992) HM
On Main Street (U.S. 56) near Union Street, on the left when traveling east.
The stump before you is all that is left of a grand old oak tree that was about 270 years old when it died in 1990. The tree, which once stood 80 feet high, was located in the campground used by Santa Fe Trail travelers. It is said to have been . . . — — Map (db m44960) HM
On Union Street (State Highway 177) at Main Street (U.S. 56), on the right when traveling north on Union Street.
This was once a place of early morning racket, dust, and confusion, as wagons bound for Santa Fe rattled and jockeyed for position to form a train. Wagonmasters shouted, "Catch up!" to the teamsters - then "Stretch out!" as the wagons began to . . . — — Map (db m44942) HM
On U.S. 56 0.3 miles east of 1300th Road, on the right when traveling west.
Marked by the
Daughters of the
American Revolution
and the
State of Kansas
1906
Trail Crossing
Kansas Society
Council Oak Chapter
DAR - 1999 — — Map (db m57178) HM
On Main Street (U.S. 56) near 2nd Street, on the left when traveling east.
Santa Fe Trail
Marked by the
Daughters of the
American Revolution
and the State of Kansas
Council Grove
On this spot August 10, 1825
the treaty was made with the
Osage Indians
for the right of way of the
Santa Fe . . . — — Map (db m44967) HM
Seth M. Hays was a shrewd, colorful, and successful trader, rancher, tavern owner, and publisher.
He built this house in 1867; it was elaborate for Council Grove at that time. Though he was a life-long bachelor, Hays adopted five-year-old Kittie . . . — — Map (db m45142) HM
Built by Seth Hays [b. 1811]. The first white settler in Council Grove. He lived here with his adopted daughter Kitty & his slave Sally until his death in 1873. — — Map (db m45143) HM
On Main Street (U.S. 56) at Adams Street, on the left when traveling west on Main Street.
With its foundation in Kansas Territory, this house was established here, along the Santa Fe Trail as Kansas became the thirty fourth state.
History Comes Alive Here! — — Map (db m45450) HM
The Mormon Battalion camped here for five days beginning 27 August 1846. The battalion's more than 500 volunteers and officers had been recruited from the Mormon pioneers (members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) at Council . . . — — Map (db m45056) HM WM
For travelers arriving on the Santa Fe Trail, Fort Larned must have looked more like a small town than a fortified place. In the early years, about 150 soldiers lived here in the summers. During the Indian Wars, as many as 400 troops called Fort . . . — — Map (db m95839) HM
The cavalry company are used entirely for escorting the mails between this post and Fort Dodge 55 miles west and Fort Zarah 33 miles east. The mails come and depart twice a week.
William Forwood, captain, Fort Larned post surgeon, . . . — — Map (db m95846) HM
It all started over trade that promised great profits. Once Mexico won independence from Spain in 1821 Americans were welcomed and encouraged to trade. Trade quickly flourished, creating opportunities and profits linking the economies of Missouri . . . — — Map (db m40127) HM
On State Highway 156, on the left when traveling west.
The Kanza Indians left their homelands east of the Mississippi River during the 1600s. They settled into what is today the northeast part of Kansas. Waterways provided sustenance for their people and were part of the tribe's culture. The success . . . — — Map (db m95883) HM
On Avenue M (U.S. 56) near 12th Road, on the left when traveling west.
One mile south is the hand-dug well that served the U.S. Cavalry and Santa Fe Trail travelers in the 1860s.
For five days in July, 1864, 600 Indians besieged a trading post near the well and a wagon train nearby. When the attackers tried to . . . — — Map (db m53319) HM
On Harley Drive west of Parkway Drive, on the right when traveling west.
Look to your left. In the early 1800s, this was the western edge of the American frontier. American Indians controlled lands "out there." Spanish territory was 440 miles farther, south of the Arkansas River.
Settlers were drawn to the Boone's . . . — — Map (db m247231) HM
On Harley Lane west of Parkway Drive, on the right when traveling west.
Rivers were once America's super highways. Westbound riverboats churned by here, hauling American goods - cloth, hardware, paper, mirrors - from St. Louis to the frontier town of (Old) Franklin, once located across the river near the railroad . . . — — Map (db m247232) HM
On Missouri Route 87 west of U.S. 40, on the right when traveling north.
Franklin, founded across the river from Boonville, 1816, was once the metropolis of the Boon's Lick Country, a central Missouri region, taking its name from a salt lick in the area worked by the sons of Daniel Boone. Here was the first land office . . . — — Map (db m247706) HM
This Trail
One of the Great Highways of the World
Stretched nearly one thousand miles from
Franklin, Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico
"From Civilization to Sundown"
[Relief Caption]
Captain William Becknell of Franklin
"Father of . . . — — Map (db m44292) HM
On Missouri Route 87 west of U.S. 40, on the right when traveling north.
Seat of Howard County
The settlement of Franklin, Missouri Territory, was established as the seat of Howard County in 1816. As the largest town west of St. Louis, it was the hub of a large region along the Missouri River called the . . . — — Map (db m247475) HM
On Missouri Route 87 west of U.S. 40, on the right when traveling north.
The flagpole located 170 yards to the SW of this post marks the center of the town square of Franklin. 1816-1828
The flagpole is at: N 38.98569, W 092.75732 — — Map (db m247707) HM
Father of the Santa Fe Trail
William Becknell led a small group out of Franklin in 1821 on the first trip along what would be known as the Santa Fe Trail. If his trip across the Great Plains was successful, the group would make money trading . . . — — Map (db m46932) HM
In March 1909, the Daughters of the American Revolution marked the Boonslick and Santa Fe Trails across the state of Missouri. This monument in New Franklin marks the end of the Boonslick Trail traversed by Daniel Boone and the beginning of William . . . — — Map (db m46505) HM
On Missouri Route 87 west of U.S. 40, on the right when traveling north.
A Look Back in Time
The Santa Fe Trail began here in Old Franklin, Missouri. Pack trains quickly gave way to freight wagons lumbering to and from Mexico (now New Mexico). When floods destroyed Franklin, residents established New Franklin. The . . . — — Map (db m247510) HM
On Missouri Route 87 west of U.S. 40, on the right when traveling north.
A Look Back in Time
The Santa Fe Trail stirs people's imagination. Spanning 900 miles of the Great Plains between the United States (Missouri) and Mexico (Santa Fe), this great trail of commerce between two countries was also a route for the . . . — — Map (db m247509) HM
On East Monroe Street (U.S. 24) at North Buckner Tarsney Road (South Sibley Street), on the right when traveling east on East Monroe Street.
Government Reservation 1808
Marked by the Daughters of the American Revolution of Fort Osage Township 1918
Cross State Highway Buckner 1876 Jackson Co. Mo. — — Map (db m131967) HM
On West College Street at North McCoy Street, on the right when traveling west on West College Street.
Hiram Young came to Missouri as an enslaved African American. He earned his freedom step by step. First he purchased his wife Matilda's freedom in the early 1840s. For children to be free, they had to be born to a free mother. The Youngs welcomed . . . — — Map (db m208243) HM
On West College Street at North McCoy Street, on the right when traveling west on West College Street.
Being at leisure one day, I rode over to Independence [from Westport, in May 1846]. The town was crowded. A multitude of shops had sprang up to furnish the emigrants and Santa Fe traders with necessaries for the journey; and there was an . . . — — Map (db m208146) HM
On Delaware Street at U.S. 24, on the left when traveling north on Delaware Street. Reported missing.
Side A:
Independence, famed "City of the Trails," was for two decades the starting point of the great western trade and travel routes to Santa Fe, Oregon, and California. Settled mainly by Southerners on land ceded the U.S. by the Osage . . . — — Map (db m44323) HM
On West College Street at North McCoy Street, on the left when traveling east on West College Street.
The entire country had railroad fever in the 1830s, with the dream that one day a railroad might span the continent! In Independence merchants needed to move goods between the town square and the Wayne City steamboat landing on the Missouri River - . . . — — Map (db m208135) HM
On West College Street at North McCoy Street, on the left when traveling east on West College Street.
People on steamboats loaded with goods traveled upstream on the Missouri River "highway" to Independence, where the overland journey on the Santa Fe, Oregon, and California trails began. Between March and November, steamboats passed by or stopped . . . — — Map (db m208241) HM
On West College Street at North McCoy Street, on the right when traveling west on West College Street.
The Santa Fe Trail began in 1821 when William Becknell took trade items west and found a ready market in Mexico. He passed through this area before the village of Independence was platted in 1827 as the county seat for newly formed Jackson County. . . . — — Map (db m208242) HM
On Baltimore Avenue at West 40th Street, on the right when traveling south on Baltimore Avenue.
Built in 1855 by John and Henrietta Harris this Greek revival style all brick house was located on a slightly five acre tract on the ridge just east of Westport, MO. This site was on the southwest corner of Westport Rd. (Santa Fe Trail) and Main . . . — — Map (db m44411) HM
On Pennsylvania Avenue at Westport Road, on the right when traveling north on Pennsylvania Avenue.
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 . . . — — Map (db m21064) HM
On Pennsylvania Avenue at Westport Road on Pennsylvania Avenue.
(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 . . . — — Map (db m20921) HM
