FIRST - Building in Sumner County, KS
Posted by: YoSam.
N 37° 15.471 W 097° 31.778
14S E 630388 N 4124490
It looks like this was a roadside park at one time, now just a grass area, neatly kept, with circular gravel drive entering and exiting. Research seems to indicate this was once a US Highway.
Waymark Code: WM10K1H
Location: Kansas, United States
Date Posted: 05/19/2019
Views: 4
County of Marker: Sumner County
Location of Marker: Anson Rd. & 20th St. S, former roadside park, 2 miles S. of US-160, 6 miles W. of Wellington
Marker Erected by: Business and Professional Women
and the Daughters of the American Revolution of Wellington
Marker Text: THE CHISHOLM TRAILBetween 1867 and 1876 more than two million Texas Longhorns were driven North past here to Kansas railroad towns for shipment East. At Slate Creek Crossing 5 miles northeast a trading post, 1869, was the first building in Sumner County. Over this trail after it was closed to cattle came many of the pioneers who settled Western part of the County.
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