Santa Fe Trail - Tabo - Lafayette County, MO
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member YoSam.
N 39° 11.395 W 093° 43.838
15S E 436901 N 4338106
Near Tabo Creek, was a ferry near by to aid the travelers
Waymark Code: WMM30C
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 07/12/2014
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member NW_history_buff
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County of marker: Lafayette County
Location of marker: old US 24 & US 24, E. of Tabo Creek, 2½ miles W. of Dover
Marker erected by: Daughters of the American Revolution and the Stte of Missouri
Date marker erected: 1909

Marker text:

SANTA FE TRAIL
1821 - 1872
TABO

"In September 1821 William Becknell of Franklin probably followed the Osage Trace west from Arrow Rock through Grand Pass to Mount Vernon on Tabo Creek. Mount Vernon, which no longer exists, was the county seat of Lillard (later Lafayette) County, which included all of western Missouri at that time. In April 1821 the county court licensed Adam Lightner to operate a ferry across Tabo and appointed overseers to maintain the Trace from the eastern boundary of the county to Fort Osage. Becknell probably used the ferry at Tabo and then took the Trace to Fort Osage, skirting Lexington by a few miles to the south, before heading for Santa Fe.

"The Lexington settlers had successfully petitioned the county court to open a road from Jack's Ferry to Mount Vernon by July 1821. Referred to later as the "old Santa Fe Trail" or the "old Dover Road" (after an early settlement east of Mt. Vernon), this route was settled as early as 1818 by Christopher Catron, who is said to have broken the first prairie sod in the county. " ~ Lexington Missouri and The Santa Fe Trail

Road of Trail Name: Santa Fe Trail

State: Missouri

County: Lafayette County

Historical Significance:
Beginning in Franklin MO and a connection with the Boone's Lick Road, brought pioneers direct from St. Louis and the Missouri River steamboats to the westward movement of humanity

Years in use: 1821 - 1872

How you discovered it:
Stumbled upon it. Just completed a 7 county historical marker hunt in NW MO. and was headed home by the back roads, and spotted the pink marble.

Book on Wagon Road or Trial:
Lexington By Roger E. Slusher, Lexington Historical Association Arcadia Publishing Amazon.com Barnes&Noble.com - $11.47 and up

Website Explination:
http://www.santafetrail.org/chapters/mro/March_2013_MRO_Newsletter3.pdf

Why?:
Pioneers were headed to California and Oregon and Santa Fe New Mexico for a better life, also big business used the road to supply all those people

Directions:
Marker is on Old US 24, now used as a vineyard road, just N. of US 24, a half mile E. of Tabo Creek, and about 2 and a half miles W. of Dover
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