The Road to Santa Fe

The Santa Fe trail, extending 750 miles from the Kansas City area to the old Spanish settlement of Santa Fe, was the great overland trade route of the 1820's to 1870s. Its commercial use began in 1821, when William Becknell ...

Santa Fe Trail - Cimarron Cutoff / Clayton

This is a two sided marker

Side A:

Santa Fe Trail

Cimarron Cutoff

The Santa Fe Trail was the major trade route between New Mexico and Missouri from 1821 until arrival of the railroad in 1880. The Cimarron Cutoff, a major branch of the ...

Santa Fe de Toloca

A Spanish Mission was established near here within sight of the Santa Fe River about A.D. 1606 by Franciscan missionaries. The river took its name from the mission, as did the modern town of Santa Fe. At one time, Santa ...

National Historic Landmark - Santa Fe Plaza

National Historic Landmark - Santa Fe Plaza

The Plaza has been the social, economic, and (in its early days) defensive center of the city established in the winter of 1609-10; traders and travelers knew it as the terminus of the Santa ...

Santa Fe Plaza

Serving as the historic heart of New Mexico, the Santa Fe Plaza remains a key physical, cultural, and economic landmark within the southwestern state.

The Santa Fe Plaza is a product of Spanish colonialism within the Southwest region. During the ...

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.

Marker is on U.S. 56, on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy ...

Santa Fe Depot

"Won't you be one of the 25,000 visitors at the Grand Canyon of Arizona this summer? It is the world's scenic wonder - nothing like it."

Santa Fe Railroad brochure, 1914.

The Santa Fe train whistle that was heard here on September ...

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Depot

Built 1907

This building has been placed on

The National Register of

Historic Places

By the United States Department of the Interior.

Atchinson, Topeka & Sante Fe

Railroad Depot

Built 1907

Kingman's early existence depended upon the railroad. The town's ...

Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Planing Mill

Built in 1912 at the Santa Fe rail yards in Temple, this planing mill was part of a complex of buildings that housed repair facilities for the railroad. Workers at the mill manufactured replacement parts for wooden elements of the ...

Santa Fe Locomotive No. 3759

Presented to the city of Kingman as an historical monument in 1967 by the Santa Fe Railway Company.

This "Mountain Type" coal-burning steam locomotive was built in 1927 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works. It was rebuilt and converted to oil fuel ...