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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1W4U_wagons-and-coaches-to-trains-and-planes-historical_Overland-Park-KS.html
The heyday of the trails had come and gone by the time William B. Strang Jr. platted out a residential development in this area in 1905. To promote his real estate plans and bring people out from Kansas City, he developed a trolley car railroad, t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1W4P_voices-from-the-trail-historical_Overland-Park-KS.html
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 excitem…
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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 Ind…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1W45_opening-the-floodgates-historical_Overland-Park-KS.html
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"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 group of men from Frankl…