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 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 Trail

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 ...

Santa Fe Trail Marker

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 ...

Fort Union National Monument / Santa Fe Trail

1851-1891

Side A:

Fort Union National Monument 1851-1891

Once the largest post in the Southwest, Fort Union was established to control the Jicarilla Apaches and Utes, to protect the Santa Fe Trail, and to serve as a supply depot for other New Mexico ...

Santa Fe Trail

Side A:

The difficulty of bringing caravans over rocky and mountainous Raton Pass kept most wagon traffic on the Cimarron Cutoff of the Santa Fe Trail until the 1840's. Afterwards, the Mountain Branch, which here approaches Raton Pass, became ...

End of Santa Fe Trail

This stone marks the end of the

Santa Fe Trail

1822 – 1879

Marker is at the intersection of East San Francisco Street and Old Santa Fe Trail, on the left when traveling east on East San Francisco Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Santa Fe Trail / Council Grove

1822 - 1872

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 Trail

Marker is on Main Street (U.S. 56) ...

Santa Fe Trail

1821 - 1872

Marked by the

Daughters of the

American Revolution

and the

State of Missouri

1909

Independence

Marker is on Liberty Street near Lexington Avenue, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Santa Fe Trail

1822 - 1872

Marked by the

Daughters of the

American Revolution

and the

State of Kansas

Marker is at the intersection of Lone Elm Road and West 167th Street, on the left when traveling south on Lone Elm Road.

Courtesy ...