Santa Fe Trail

1822 - 1872

Marked by the

Daughters of the

American Revolution

and the

State of Kansas

1906

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Trail Crossing

Kansas Society

Council Oak Chapter

DAR - 1999

Marker is on U.S. 56 0.3 miles east of 1300th Road, on ...

County Jail

The county jail in 1865 stood just beyond this marker. Shortly after the war it burned. The jail across the road replaced it in 1870.

Marker can be reached from State Highway 24, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy ...

Whiteside Building

126 North Main

An early skylight drew Morton Interiors, McInturff Photo Studio and Three Sisters Clothing Store. Site originally was a livery stable.

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and 2nd Avenue, on the right when traveling north ...

Pulitzer Prize Winner Caroline Pafford Miller

Baxley`s Caroline Pafford Miller (1903-1992) was the first Georgia novelist to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. The author was born in Waycross and spent her formative years in the South Georgia wiregrass country. After moving to Baxley she ...

Avalanche of 1911

Not far from this site, in the early morning hours of March 7, 1911, a massive avalanche roared down the east slop of Copper Mountain and wiped out the town of Jordan. Eight people were killed including Robert Mason, the ...

Blossom Street School / Celia Dial Saxon School

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Blossom Street School

Blossom Street School, at the corner of what was then Blossom & Gates (now Park) Streets, was built in 1898 as the first public school in Columbia south of Senate Street. A frame building, it ...

Calvert Family Cemetery

Burial place of George & Rosalie Calvert, four infant children and Charles Benedict Calvert and his infant son. The Calvert family, descendants of the Lords Baltimore, lived at "Riversdale" from 1803 to 1887. Charles Benedict Calvert was a major figure ...

Little Rock Schoolhouse

Fillmore was settled in 1851. Before the close of the first year the Pioneers had erected a log school room inside the fort. It had split logs for seats, a dirt roof and floor. In 1854 an adobe church was ...

Popularizer of the Banjo

Nearby is buried Joel Walker Sweeney (ca. 1810-1860), the musician who redesigned this African instrument into the modern five-string banjo that is known today. Although slaves apparently added the fifth string to what had been a four-strong instrument, Sweeney popularized ...

Lifeblood of the Mountains

More precipitation falls in the Great Smoky Mountains than anywhere else in the eastern United States. The yearly average is about 890 billion gallons - over 60 inches. Forty-four percent of it is absorbed by the atmosphere and the luxuriant ...