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Certified Santa Fe National Historic Trail Sites
Sites on the National Register of Historic Places are noted (NRHP)
National Historic Landmarks are noted (NHL)
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| Santa Fe Trail Site
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Description
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| Fort Aubry
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The site of Fort Aubry is 3 miles east of Syracuse
on US Highway 50, then 0.5 mile south on a rural road, 0.5 mile east on
a rural road, and very near a farmstead on the south side of the road. The
Aubry Cutoff, opened in 1850, became an important route from the Arkansas
River to the Oklahoma Panhandle because water supplies were more reliable
along this route than along La Jornada portion of the Cimarron route.
Remains of the fort consist mainly of three clusters
of dugout depressions.
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| Aubry Crossing
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The Aubry Crossing of the Arkansas River, approximately
three miles downstream from the site of Fort Aubry, was used more than the
Upper Crossing near Lakin, Kansas, and it rivaled the traffic at the Middle
Crossings for about ten years. The importance of this route led to the establishment
of two military posts in 1865, Fort Aubry and Camp
Nichols (in the Oklahoma Panhandle).
The Aubry crossing has disappeared but wagon ruts
still delineate the trail here and the spring still exists near the fort
site.
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