HAYS HOUSE COUNCIL GROVE, KANSAS
Located along the old Santa Fe Trail, the Hays House Restaurant has been feeding travelers since 1857. Seth Hays, the town's founder and great-grandson of Daniel Boone, built the log building, which is still part of the restaurant.
Fried chicken, ham and from-scratch food are still trademarks. It was frequented by 7th Cavalry Lt. Col. George Custer during the 1860s.
A 2011 fire threatened to close it down, but 25 town residents chipped in and bought the landmark.
So It Continues. --RoadDog
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Showing posts with label Santa Fe Trail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Santa Fe Trail. Show all posts
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National Historic Trails: Santa Fe Trail-- Part 2
The wagons were loaded with anything from buttons, cloth, thread, knives, sugar, playing cards to handkerchiefs and would leave for the six-to-seven week long journey to Santa Fe. Traders even sold their wagons and returned with silver coins, wool and mules. AS you can see on the map, more than half of the trail is in Kansas.
Last fall, "rut nuts" as members of the association call themselves, gathered in Dodge City, Kansas to share research and visit a site west of town where the wagon ruts can be seen.
Besides Point of Rocks, other major places on the Santa Fe Trail is a tree stump in Council Grove, Kansas, where U.S. agents signed an 1825 treaty with the Osage Indians guaranteeing safe passage through Indian land.
Back then, leaving Council Bluffs meant 600 miles to Bent's Fort, an 1840s post near La Junta, Colorado, before you'd see another building. This site has been reconstructed. Another place is Fort Union National Monument near Watrous, N.M., where you can see remains of the adobe fort and wagon ruts.
This trail is definitely on my list of things I'd like to drive some day along with any of the other eighteen trails.
Maybe One Day. Oh, Give Me a Rut Where the Buffalo Roam. --RoadDog
Last fall, "rut nuts" as members of the association call themselves, gathered in Dodge City, Kansas to share research and visit a site west of town where the wagon ruts can be seen.
Besides Point of Rocks, other major places on the Santa Fe Trail is a tree stump in Council Grove, Kansas, where U.S. agents signed an 1825 treaty with the Osage Indians guaranteeing safe passage through Indian land.
Back then, leaving Council Bluffs meant 600 miles to Bent's Fort, an 1840s post near La Junta, Colorado, before you'd see another building. This site has been reconstructed. Another place is Fort Union National Monument near Watrous, N.M., where you can see remains of the adobe fort and wagon ruts.
This trail is definitely on my list of things I'd like to drive some day along with any of the other eighteen trails.
Maybe One Day. Oh, Give Me a Rut Where the Buffalo Roam. --RoadDog
National Historic Trails: Santa Fe Trail-- Part 1
From American Profile Magazine "National Historic Trails: Pathways to America's Past" by Marti Attoun.
Faye Gaines lives near Springer, New Mexico and right by some historic wagon ruts made by hundreds of freight and military wagons traveling the Santa Fe Trail. Gaines is 85 and has been living there since she was 4 and is big backer of the old Santa Fe Trail, which is one of 19 National Historic Trails and also is custodian of the Point of Rocks, a mesa near her place with a spring at its base, a popular campsite and watering hole along the 900-mile trail that linked Missouri and New Mexico.
Modern-day travelers come to her ranch, owned by the family since 1898. She greets them and shows rock piles marking the graves of early travelers, only one whose name is known, Isaac Allen, because his name is chiseled into a stone.
There are 700 members of the Santa Fe Trail Association whose goal is to preserve and promote William Becknell's 1821 trail established to move American goods to Spanish-speaking customers in the new Republic of Mexico.
Franklin, Missouri, was the original starting point, but by 1827, it had moved to Independence, Missouri, and then, in the mid-1840s to Westport, Missouri where goods were shipped by steamboat on the Missouri River then loaded onto freight wagons.
More to Come. --RoadDog
Faye Gaines lives near Springer, New Mexico and right by some historic wagon ruts made by hundreds of freight and military wagons traveling the Santa Fe Trail. Gaines is 85 and has been living there since she was 4 and is big backer of the old Santa Fe Trail, which is one of 19 National Historic Trails and also is custodian of the Point of Rocks, a mesa near her place with a spring at its base, a popular campsite and watering hole along the 900-mile trail that linked Missouri and New Mexico.
Modern-day travelers come to her ranch, owned by the family since 1898. She greets them and shows rock piles marking the graves of early travelers, only one whose name is known, Isaac Allen, because his name is chiseled into a stone.
There are 700 members of the Santa Fe Trail Association whose goal is to preserve and promote William Becknell's 1821 trail established to move American goods to Spanish-speaking customers in the new Republic of Mexico.
Franklin, Missouri, was the original starting point, but by 1827, it had moved to Independence, Missouri, and then, in the mid-1840s to Westport, Missouri where goods were shipped by steamboat on the Missouri River then loaded onto freight wagons.
More to Come. --RoadDog
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