Santa Fe Trail Scene - New Franklin, MO - Relief Art Sculptures on Waymarking.com

County of object: Howard County
Location of object: Plaza in center of E. Broadway, New Franklin
Built: 1909
Erected by: Daughters of the American Revolution and the State of Missouri

This huge pink granite boulder was used to created this Santa Fe marker. This bould was once west of here, but floods keep puting it in danger, and in 1913 was moved here.
THe top of the bronze plaque is a scene of a man on a horse and riding along side pack mules and horses along the trail.

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"20. Center of E. Broadway, opposite 122 E. Broadway. Santa Fe Trail Marker, 1913.
This large red granite boulder was placed at this location on 1913. It is approximately five feet tall, of rough stone with a large bronze plaque on one side. A three-globe cast iron street light on the top of the stone was added sometime before 1940, per historic photos. A small paved plaza with a flag pole and historical interpretive signs was built around the stone within the last few decades. [c object]" ~ NRHP Nomination Form [link below]

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Text on the marker:

Captain William Becknell of Franklin
"Father of the Santa Fe Trail"
With Four Companions, Led the First Organized
Trade Expediton To Santa Fe, September 1st 1821

Franklin
"Cradle of the Santa Fe Trail
1821

This Trail
One of the Great Highways of the World
Stretched Nearly One Thousand Miles From
Franklin, Missouri To Santa Fe, New Mexico

"From Civilization To Sundown"

Marked By The
Daughters of the American Revolution
and the
State of Missouri
1909

Your impression of the sculpture?: Date Sculpture was opened for vewing?: 01/01/1909 Website for sculpture?: [Web Link] Where is this sculpture?: Plaza in Center of E. Broadway, New Franklin, MO 65274 Sculptors Name: Not listed

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