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N 38° 54.417 W 094° 36.353
15S E 360757 N 4307676
Information table at Santa Fe Trail remnants in New Santa Fe, Kansas City, MO.
Waymark Code: WMRQH0
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 07/24/2016
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From the information table:
Sometime muddy, often dusty, the shared track of the Santa Fe, Oregon and California trails once passed this way. Teamsters created this route, urging heavy freight wagons to and from New Mexico. In the 1840s-50s, pioneer families traveled this part of the Santa Fe Trail as they started west to Oregon and California.
Here travelers found an ideal camp, with water and good grazing. By the late 1840s, a stage stop called "New Santa Fe" offered several amenities: a post office, two general stores, an inn, a shoe shop, drugstore, blacksmith, and saloon. It was a last stop before entering Indian territory.
The wheels of heavy wagons, thousands of hooves, and the feet of generations of people wore deep ruts into the land. The rolling, grass-filled swales in front of you are the last hints in this area of these famous western roads.
Location Name: New Santa Fe
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