Santa Fe Trail Ruts
The Santa Fe Trail closely follows State Highway 56 across the northern portion of Osage County and several areas of the trail's ruts are...
Butterfield Overland Despatch Trail
Stone markers can be seen where this trail crosses the north-south country roads. The Butterfield Overland Despatch followed the route of the old Smoky...
Threshing Machine Canyon
In 1867, a party of travelers were transporting three threshing machines belonging to Brigham Young along the Smoky Hill Trail. While encamped at the...
Stone Post Country
The miles of stone fenceposts in this area stand as a tribute to the ingenuity of early settlers who solved their fencing problems on...
Col. William Newton Kinslow
When Col. William Newton Kinslow died in Beloit on Oct. 18, 1948, many attended his funeral, but no one bought him a head stone...
Holm Log Cabin
The two room Holm cabin was built by Swedish pioneers in approximately 1876 of hand hewn logs of oak and door frames of walnut....
Bell-Bogardus Indian Massacre and Cemetery
August 12, 1868 - At the homestead site of David A. Bogardus, 40 rods north of the Solomon River and 3 miles southeast of...
Bushton’s Pioneer Life
In 1881, the only thing that marked the location of Bushton was a hedge where main street is now located. People started to come...
Republican Party in Kansas
It was on May 18, 1859, that the Republican Party was organized in Kansas by Horace Greeley at the Osage Valley Hotel which stood...
Wetzel’s Cabin
This cabin was built in 1857 by the C.F. Wetzel family. In 1861, a Lutheran congregation was organized in this cabin and a missionary...
