Last updated: January 26, 2023
Place
Strang Park, Overland Park
Photo/City of Overland Park
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Location:
Overland Park, Kansas
Significance:
Located near the historic route of the Santa Fe, Oregon, and California Trails
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3 listed
Picnic Table, Playground, Trailhead
The Santa Fe Trail forked into two routes as it headed south from Westport. Along the routes were campgrounds for trail travelers — to the northeast of the junction was Sapling Grove and to the southwest was a campground called Flat Rock or Indian Creek.
Until the 1860s, these two routes out of Westport saw traffic from Santa Fe traders, Oregon- and California-bound emigrants, mountain men, missionaries, gold seekers, and the frontier military. Even the frontier stagecoach of the early 1860s rumbled through this trail junction heading southwest.
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