Travels in the
USA Organized by Type of Site Updated 10 October 2009 |
Abbreviations used in lists:
NB = National Battlefield; NBP = National Battlefield Park; NF = National Forest; NG = National Grassland;
NHP = National Historical Park; NM = National Monument; NMP = National Military Park; NP = National Park;
NRA = National Recreation Area; NWR = National Wildlife Refuge; BLM = US Bureau of Land Management;
SHP = State Historical Park; SHS = State Historic Site; SM = State Monument; SP = State Park; SWR = State Wildlife Refuge
USFS = US Forest Service
| National Park Service (Natural History)
Acadia NP, Maine Arches NP, Utah Badlands NP, South Dakota Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida Black Canyon of the Gunnison NP, Colorado Canyon de Chelly NM, Arizona Canyonlands NP, Utah Capulin Volcano NM, New Mexico Carlsbad Caverns NP, New Mexico Catoctin Mountain Park, Maryland City of Rocks National Reserve, Idaho Colorado NM, Colorado Crater Lake NP, Oregon Curecanti NRA, Colorado Devil's Tower NM, Wyoming Dinosaur NM, Colorado El Malpais NM, New Mexico Everglades NP, Florida Grand Canyon NP, Arizona Grand Tetons NP, Wyoming Great Basin NP, Nevada Great Sand Dunes NP, Colorado Great Smoky Mountains NP, Tennessee - North Carolina Guadalupe Mountains NP, Texas Joshua Tree NP, California Kenai Fjords NP (and Resurrection Bay), Alaska Kings Canyon-Sequoia NP, California Lassen Volcanic NP, California Montezuma Castle NM (Montezuma Well Unit), Arizona Mount Rainier NP, Washington Natural Bridges NM, Utah Olympic NP, Washington Organ Pipe Cactus NM, Arizona Padre Island National Seashore Petrified Forest NP, Arizona Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Michigan Redwood NP and SP, California Rocky Mountain NP, Colorado Saguaro NP, Arizona Shenandoah NP , Virginia Sunset Crater NM, Arizona Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Kansas Theodore Roosevelt NP, North Dakota (North and South Units) Whiskytown NRA, Colorado White Sands NM, New Mexico Yellowstone NP, Wyoming Yosemite NP, California |
State Parks (Natural History)
Adirondack Park, New York Alabaster Cavern SP, Oklahoma Anza-Borrego Desert SP, California Beverly Beach SP, Oregon Big Oak Tree SP, Missouri Boiling Spring SP, Oklahoma Bottomless Lakes SP, New Mexico Calaveras Big Tree SP, California Cape Arago SP, Oregon Cimarron Canyon SP, New Mexico Darlingtonia State Wayside, Oregon D River State Recreation Area, Oregon Golden and Silver Falls SP, Oregon Goosenecks SP, Utah Humbug Mountain SP, Oregon John James Audubon SP, Kentucky Louisiana Purchase Historic SP, Arkansas McArthur-Burney Memorial SP, California Mushroom Rock SP, Kansas Natural Falls SP, Oklahoma Palo Duro Canyon SP, Texas Pattison SP, Wisconsin Prairie SP, Missouri Redwood NP and SP, California Ricketts Glen SP, Pennsylvania Rifle Falls SP, Colorado Shore Acres SP, Oregon Silver Falls SP, Oregon Smith Falls SP, Nebraska Sunset Bay SP, Oregon Taum Sauk SP, Missouri Villanueva SP, New Mexico Physical Geography Monuments Highest Points Mount Sunflower, Kansas Taum Sauk SP, Missouri Panorama Point, Nebraska Black Mesa, Oklahoma Geographic Center of 48 Conterminous States, Kansas New Madrid Earthquake marker, Missouri (1811-1812) |
| Miscellaneous Natural History Sites Aransas NWR, Texas Audubon Research Ranch, Arizona Ayers Natural Bridge (Converse County Park), Wyoming Black Hills, South Dakota Black Mesa Nature Preserve, Oklahoma Bosque del Apache NWR, New Mexico Cape Perpetua Scenic Area, Oregon Cheyenne Bottoms SWR, Kansas Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona Dexter National Fish Hatchery, New Mexico Fort Niobrara NWR, Nebraska Imperial Sand Dunes, California Jemez Mountains - Valle Grande Caldera, New Mexico Lake Champlain, New York - Vermont Lake Itasca - Mississippi River Headwaters, Minnesota Lake Superior North Shore, Minnesota Lake Tahoe, California Land Between the Lakes NRA, Kentucky Monument Valley, Arizona - Utah Mount St Helens National Volcanic Monument, Washington Multnomah Falls, Oregon Oregon Dunes NRA, Oregon Ozark Mountains, Missouri Quivira NWR, Kansas Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico Salton Sea, California Salt River Canyon, Arizona Sand Hills, Nebraska Sand Mountain (BLM), Nevada Sandia Mountains, New Mexico San Francisco Peaks, Arizona Santa Catalina Mountains (Mount Lemmon), Arizona Smoky Valley Ranch, The Nature Conservancy, Kansas Snowy Range Scenic Byway, Wyoming South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Oregon Thousand Springs Scenic Byway, Snake River Valley, Idaho Valley of Fire NRA (BLM), New Mexico Wichita Mountains NWR, Oklahoma Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area (BLM), Oregon |
Museums, Gardens, Aquaria, and Zoos
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Allen County Historical Society Museum, Kansas American Museum of Natural History, New York Arabia Steamboat Museum (1856), Kansas City, Missouri Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona Birger Sandzen Memorial (Art) Gallery, Lindsborg, Kansas Cosmosphere, Hall of Space Museum, Hutchinson, Kansas Ellis County Historical Society Museum, Kansas El Pueblo History Museum, Pueblo, Colorado Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas Kansas History Museum, Topeka, Kansas Missouri Botanical Garden, St Louis, Missouri Monterey Bay Aquarium - Canary Row, California Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon San Diego Zoo, California Sternberg Museum of Natural History, Hays, Kansas Miscellaneous Monuments Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, Missouri Gateway Arch Mount Rushmore NM, South Dakota Statue of Liberty, New York US Capitol, District of Columbia Washington Monument, District of Columbia Lighthouses (* = inside tour) Pacific Coast Tillamook Rock, Oregon Yaquina Head, Oregon Heceta Head, Oregon Umpqua River, Oregon Cape Arago, Oregon Coquille River (Bandon Light), Oregon* Cape Blanco, Oregon Atlantic Coast Cape Henry, Virginia Great Lakes Split Rock, Minnesota |
| Homes of Presidents and Similar Sites 1) Mount Vernon, Virginia (George Washington) 2) Adams NHP, Massachusetts (John Adams) 3) Monticello, Virginia (Thomas Jefferson) 4) Montpelier, Virginia (James Madison) 5) Ash Lawn-Highland, Virginia (James Monroe) 6) Adams NHP, Massachusetts (John Quincy Adams) 7) The Hermitage, Tennessee (Andrew Jackson) 9) Grouseland, Indiana (William Henry Harrison) 11) James K. Polk Home, Tennessee 16) Lincoln Home NHS, Illinois 18) U.S. Grant Home SHS, Illinois 31) Herbert Hoover NHS, Iowa 32) Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt NHS, New York 33) Harry S. Truman NHS, Missouri 34) Eisenhower Center, Kansas John James Audubon SP & Museum, Henderson, Kentucky Kit Carson home, Taos, New Mexico Willa Cather childhood home, Red Cloud, Nebraska Cather Foundation Center: 1885 Opera House Numerous sites associated with the author and her books. Buffalo Bill Ranch SHP, North Platte, Nebraska William F. Cody - Scout's Rest Ranch house and barn Frederick Funston Boyhood Home & Museum, Iola, Kansas Sam Houston Memorial Museum, Huntsville, Texas Woodland Home and Steamboat House Walter Johnson boyhood home marker, Allen Co., Kansas Scott Joplin SHS, St. Louis, Missouri Maple Leaf Park, Sedalia, Missouri General Pershing Boyhood Home SHS, Laclede, Missouri Edgar Allan Poe NHS, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Thomas Say grave, New Harmony, Indiana Mark Twain Boyhood Home, Hannibal, Missouri William Allen White House SHS, Emporia, Kansas Wright Brothers - Dayton Aviation Heritage NHS, Ohio Hoover Block (print shop), Wright Cycle Company, home site, and Huffman Prairie Flying Field |
Spanish America
St. Augustine Spanish Quarter, Florida Castillo de San Marcos NM, Florida Coronado Entrada (1539-1542) Coronado SM, Bernalillo, New Mexico Tiguex pueblo ruins (pueblo occupied by expedition) Pecos NHP, Pecos, New Mexico Cicuique pueblo ruins (pueblo visited by expedition) Coronado Cross, Fort Dodge, Kansas Thanksgiving Mass after crossing Arkansas River Coronado-Quivira Museum, Lyons, Kansas, and Coronado Heights, Lindsborg, Kansas Possible entrada terminus area: Quivira (1541) El Camino Real International Heritage Center, New Mexico State museum: Spanish royal road from Zacatecas to Taos El Morro NM, New Mexico Spanish (and other) inscriptions Jemez SM, New Mexico Pueblo mission ruins (1600s) Pecos NHP, New Mexico Pueblo mission ruins (1600s) Salinas Pueblo Missions NM, New Mexico Pueblo mission ruins (1600s) Tumacacori NHS, Arizona Mission ruins (1691-1800s) Los Adaes SHS, Louisiana Spanish capital of Texas (1719-1773) Villasur Expedition marker, Columbus, Nebraska Pawnee / Oto (French allies) defeated Spanish soldiers, Pueblo Indian allies, and Apache scouts (Aug 1720) Tubac Presidio SHS, Arizona (1752-1848) Arkansas Post National Memorial (Fort Carlos III), Arkansas Miscellaneous Historical Sites Colonial NHP, Virginia Cape Henry Memorial (April 1607 landing of colonists) Jamestown Settlement (1607) Arkansas Post National Memorial, Arkansas (1686~1912) Louisiana Purchase Historic SP, Arkansas (1815 survey) Alamo, San Antonio, Texas (1836) Arrow Rock SHS, Missouri (1800s town) Grinter Place SHS, Kansas (1855-1860 ferry/trading post) Dutch Windmill, Wamego, Kansas (limestone tower, 1879) Shasta SHP, California (gold mining town, late 1800s) Pancho Villa SP, New Mexico Mexican guerilla raid on Columbus, New Mexico (1916) |
| Explorers and Historical Trails and Routes
Lewis & Clark Trail Sections (1804-1806) Missouri-Mississippi River Confluence, Kansas Fort de Cavagnial and Independence Creek, Kansas Fort Mandan, North Dakota, to Great Falls, Montana Lost Trail Pass, Montana, to Lewiston, Idaho Umatilla, Oregon, to Fort Clatsop, Oregon Three Forks, Montana, to Pompeys Pillar, Montana Corps of Discovery Sites (1804-1806) Lewis and Clark SHS, Illinois Fort River Dubois (1803-1804) Independence Creek (July 4, 1804), Kansas Sergeant Floyd Monument (Aug 1804), Iowa Fort Mandan Historic Site (1804-1805), North Dakota Knife River Villages NHS, North Dakota Missouri Headwaters SP (July 1805), Montana Lost Trail Pass (Sep 1805), Idaho - Montana Travelers Rest (Sep 1805, June-July 1806), Montana Lolo Pass (Sep 1805 and June 1806), Montana - Idaho Weippe Prairie (Sep 1805 and June 1806), Idaho Canoe Camp (Sep-Oct 1805), Idaho Lewis and Clark NHP (1805-1806), Washington/Oregon Sites near the mouth of the Columbia River: Clark's Dismal Nitch rest area markers, Washington Station Camp markers, Washington Fort Clatsop National Memorial, Astoria, Oregon Salt Works markers and furnace, Seaside, Oregon Long Camp (Spring 1806), Idaho Pompeys Pillar NM (BLM), Montana "Wm. Clark July 25th 1806" carved into sandstone Fort Belle Fontaine County Park (22 Sep 1806), Missouri Natchez Trace, Grinder's Inn (Oct 1809), Tennessee Meriwether Lewis grave Zebulon Pike (across the central plains, 1806-1807) Fort Belle Fontaine (St Louis) County Park, Missouri Cottonwood River marker, west of Durham, Kansas (Sep 1806) Pike Monument, west of Delphos, Kansas (Sep 1806) Pawnee Village site marker, Guide Rock, Nebraska 25 Sep-7 Oct 1806 Zebulon Pike Plaza markers, Larned, Kansas (Oct 1806) Pike's Tower, Lamar, Colorado Willow Creek campsite memorial (Nov 1806) Pike's Stockade replica site, Sanford, Colorado Winter of 1806-1807 Smoky Hill Trail / Butterfield Overland Despatch Western Kansas--Eastern Colorado: 1865-1870 Auto Tour Route Traveled (pdf files: text and maps) Fort Ellsworth site marker, Ellsworth Co., Kansas Kanopolis Reservoir Wildlife Area Fort Harker Museum, Kanopolis, Kansas Fort Fletcher / Forks of Big Creek Station area, Kansas BOD marker, Walker Avenue, Ellis Co. Fort Fletcher Bridge (1936 WPA; 4-span limestone arch) Fort Hays SHS, Hays, Kansas Monument Rocks (Monument Station area), Kansas BOD marker, Gove County Road 16 Smoky Hill Springs Station, Logan Co., Kansas Smoky Valley Ranch, The Nature Conservancy Eaton Station area, Russell Springs, Kansas BOD marker, Butterfield Trail Museum Fort Wallace Cemetery, Wallace Co., Kansas Fort Wallace Museum, Wallace, Kansas Pond Creek Station building Trail Monument, west of Cheyenne Wells, Colorado Trail Monument, north of Kit Carson, Colorado Fort Hays-Fort Dodge Military Road, Kansas Fort Hays SHS and marker, Hays, Ellis Co. Five-Mile Hollow marker, Butterfield Trail Road, Ellis Co. (now known as Lookout Hollow) Military Road-Smoky Hill Trail Junction marker, Ellis Co. Smoky Hill River Crossing marker, Ellis Co. Big Timber Creek Crossing marker, Rush Co. Walnut Creek Crossing marker, Alexander, Rush Co. Pawnee Fork (River) Crossing marker, Hodgeman Co. Buckner Creek Crossing marker, Hodgeman Co. Road Crossing marker, 221 Road, Hodgeman Co. Road Crossing marker, Antelope Road, Ford Co. Sawlog Creek Crossing marker, Ford Co. Road Crossing marker, north of Fort Dodge, Ford Co. Fort Dodge, Santa Fe Trail, and marker, Ford Co. John Wesley Powell (Colorado River, 1869, 1871) Expedition Island City Park, Green River, Wyoming Grand Canyon NP, Arizona Natchez Trace (sites listed south to north) Natchez, Mississippi to Jackson, Mississippi 8.1 -- Temporary Southern Terminus 10.3 -- Emerald Mound 41.5 -- Sunken Trace Mile 385, Tennessee to Nashville, Tennessee 385.9 -- Grinder Inn Site - Meriwether Lewis Grave 404.7 -- Jackson Falls 442.3 -- Northern Terminus National Road (1811-1839; sites listed east to west) Maryland to Uniontown, Pennsylvania (US-40) Fort Necessity NB, Pennsylvania (July 1754) Braddock's Grave (July 1755) Hendrysburg, Ohio to Old Washington, Ohio (I-70) Lincoln Highway (sites listed east to west) and First Transcontinental Motor Train (July-Sep 1919) Fulton, Illinois to Missouri Valley, Iowa (US-30) Lincoln Hotel, Lowden, Iowa 1910 bridge, Mount Vernon, Iowa Iowa Seedling Mile, west of Mount Vernon, Iowa Youngsville Station, west of Cedar Rapids, Iowa Lincoln Highway bridge, Tama, Iowa Merle Hay Memorial, Glidden, Iowa Original brick pavers, Woodbine, Iowa Elkhorn, Nebraska to Fremont, Nebraska (US-275) Fremont, Nebraska to Pine Bluffs, Wyoming (US-30) Lincoln Highway bridge, Overton, Nebraska Pine Bluffs, Wyoming to Laramie, Wyoming (I-80) Lincoln Monument, Wyoming Laramie, Wyoming to Walcott, Wyoming (US-30) Walcott, Wyoming to Salt Lake City, Utah (I-80) Fort Fred Steele SHS, Wyoming Fort Bridger SHS, Wyoming Great Salt Lake, Utah to Dugway, Utah (UT-36, UT-199) Ely, Nevada to Lake Tahoe, California (US-50) Kansas-Pacific Railroad (UP Eastern Division) and US Highway 40 (Old 40) / Victory Highway Topeka, Kansas to Watkins, Colorado Old Dutch Mill, Wamego, Kansas Fort Riley, Kansas Eisenhower Center, Abilene, Kansas Midland Hotel & Czech Opera House, Wilson, Kansas Cathedral of the Plains (St Fidelis), Victoria, Kansas Fort Hays SHS, Hays, Kansas Grainfield Opera House, Kansas Fort Wallace Museum, Wallace, Kansas Final Spike marker, Strasburg, Colorado Transcontinental Railroad (Union Pacific / Central Pacific) Golden Spike NHS, Utah Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways (29 June 1956) First construction started, St. Charles Co., Missouri I-70 (US-40), west of St. Louis Contract awarded: 2 Aug 1956 Construction started: 13 Aug 1956 First section completed, Shawnee Co., Kansas I-70 (US-40), west of Topeka Contract awarded: 31 Aug 1956 Concrete paving started: 26 Sep 1956 Section formally opened: 14 Nov 1956 Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail Voting Rights March: Selma to Montgomery, Alabama 7 March 1965 ("Bloody Sunday") and 21 March 1965 National Scenic and Historic Byways Arizona Sky Island National Scenic Byway California Ebbetts Pass National Scenic Byway Idaho Northwest Passage National Scenic Byway Kansas Flint Hills National Scenic Byway Wetlands and Wildlife National Scenic Byway New Mexico Jemez Mountain Trail National Byway Oregon Historic Columbia River Highway Natl Scenic Byway Pacific Coast National Scenic Byway Rogue-Umpqua National Scenic Byway |
Historical Trails
Oregon Trail (sites listed east to west) Gardner, Kansas* to Oregon City, Oregon Vermillion River Crossing - Vieux Cemetery park, Kansas Scott Spring park, Kansas Alcove Spring park, Kansas Hollenberg Station SHS, Kansas Rock Creek Station SHP, Nebraska Kiowa Station site marker, Nebraska Emory Stagecoach Ambush site marker, Nebraska (1864) Bowie Ranch site marker, Nebraska Oak Grove Station site marker, Nebraska Pawnee Ranch site marker, Nebraska Spring Ranch site markers, Nebraska Thirty-two Mile Creek Station site, Nebraska Fort Kearny SHP, Nebraska Plum Creek Massacre site marker, Nebraska Plum Creek Station site, Nebraska Willow Island Station building, Cozad, Nebraska Midway Station site and building, Nebraska Fort McPherson National Cemetery, Nebraska Fort McPherson site monument, Nebraska California Hill site (Lower California Crossing), Nebraska Upper California Crossing marker, Colorado Ash Hollow SHP, Nebraska Bluewater Creek Battlefield site and marker (1855), Nebraska Courthouse Rock and Jail Rock, Nebraska Chimney Rock NHS, Nebraska Scotts Bluff NM, Nebraska Horse Creek Treaty Grounds marker (1851), Nebraska Grattan Battlefield marker (1854), Wyoming Fort Laramie NHS, Wyoming Register Cliff SHS, Wyoming Oregon Trail Ruts SHS, Wyoming Fort Caspar Historic Site (Platte Bridge), Wyoming Independence Rock SHS, Wyoming Devil's Gate, BLM site, Wyoming Split Rock, BLM site, Wyoming Ice Slough site marker, Wyoming South Pass, Wyoming Big Sandy Crossing and Station site marker, Wyoming Simpson's Hollow marker, Wyoming Lombard Ferry site marker, Seedskadee NWR, Wyoming Fort Bridger SHS, Wyoming Soda Springs area, Idaho Fort Hall replica, Pocatello, Idaho Three Island Crossing SP, Idaho Ward Massacre Memorial County Park, Idaho Fort Boise site, Fort Boise Wildlife Management Area, Idaho Flagstaff Hill (Trail Interpretive Center, BLM), Oregon Blue Mountain Segment (Meacham-Deadman Pass), Oregon The Dalles, Oregon Columbia River Gorge Segment, Oregon and Barlow Trail Segment, Oregon Barlow Pass, Oregon Barlow Tollgate site reconstruction, Oregon Oregon City, Oregon California Trail (sites listed east to west from Idaho) [Same sites listed for Oregon Trail through Fort Hall, Idaho] Southeastern Idaho City of Rocks National Reserve, Idaho Wells, Nevada to Fallon, Nevada Truckee Route: Fallon, Nevada to Cisco, California Carson Route: Fallon, Nevada to Carson City, Nevada Wells, Nevada to Mill City, Nevada Nobles Trail sites (Mills City, Nevada to Shasta, California) Roop's Fort (Susanville), California Lassen Volcanic NP, California Shasta SHP, California Mormon Pioneer Trail (sites listed east to west) Winter Quarters, Omaha, Nebraska Old Florence Mill Elkhorn River Crossing, Nebraska to Columbus, Nebraska Grand Island, Nebraska to Fort Bridger, Wyoming Roadometer Starting Point marker, North Platte, Nebraska Chimney Rock NHS, Nebraska Scotts Bluff NM, Nebraska Grattan Battlefield marker (1854), Wyoming Fort Laramie NHS, Wyoming (joins Oregon Trail) Register Cliff SHS, Wyoming Oregon Trail Ruts SHS, Wyoming Fort Caspar Historic Site (Morman Ferry), Wyoming Independence Rock SHS, Wyoming Devil's Gate, BLM site, Wyoming Martin's Cove marker, Wyoming Martin Handcart Company refuge site (Winter 1856) Split Rock, BLM site, Wyoming Ice Slough site marker, Wyoming South Pass, Wyoming Big Sandy Crossing and Station site marker, Wyoming Simpson's Hollow marker, Wyoming Lombard Ferry site marker, Seedskadee NWR, Wyoming Fort Bridger SHS, Wyoming (splits from Oregon Trail) Echo Canyon, Utah East Canyon, Utah Big Mountain Pass, Utah Emigration Canyon, Utah This Is the Place Monument, Utah Pony Express Trail (station sites listed east to west) [Sites with physical remains or listed on National Register] St Joseph, Missouri to Fort Bridger, Wyoming Pony Express Museum (stable) and Patee House, Missouri Pony Express Home Station No. 1 Museum (stable), Kansas Hollenberg Station SHS, Kansas Rock Creek Station SHP, Nebraska Thirty-two Mile Creek Station site, Nebraska Fort Kearny SHP, Nebraska Plum Creek Station site, Nebraska Willow Island Station building, Cozad, Nebraska Midway Station site and building, Nebraska Station building, Gothenburg, Nebraska Julesburg (No. 1) Station site marker, Colorado Mud Springs Station site marker, Nebraska Fort Laramie NHS, Wyoming Platte Bridge Station (Fort Caspar Historic Site), Wyoming Fort Bridger SHS, Wyoming Utah Echo, East, and Emigration Canyons station site markers Camp Floyd / Stagecoach Inn SP Museum Austin, Nevada to Lake Tahoe, Nevada Santa Fe Trail (sites listed east to west) Franklin, Missouri to New Santa Fe, Missouri Old Franklin marker, Missouri Arrow Rock SHS, Missouri Fort Osage, Jackson County Historic Site, Missouri Minor Park - Blue River (Red Bridge) Crossing, Missouri Shawnee Indian Mission SHS, Kansas Gardner, Kansas* to Cimarron, Kansas: Arkansas R. Crossings Kaw Mission SHS, Council Grove, Kansas Lost Spring site marker, Kansas Cottonwood River Crossing site marker, Kansas Walnut Creek Crossing-Fort Zarah park marker, Kansas Pawnee Rock SHS, Kansas Ash Creek Campsite marker, Kansas Santa Fe Trail Survey, 30 Aug 1825 Ash Creek Crossing marker, Kansas Later Eastern Fork of Wet-Dry Routes marker, Kansas Pawnee River Campsite, Larned, Kansas Santa Fe Trail Survey, 31 Aug 1825 Pawnee River Crossing (Wet Route) markers, Kansas Santa Fe Trail Center, Larned, Kansas Later Pawnee River Crossing (Dry Route) marker, Kansas Fort Larned NM, Kansas Initial Eastern Fork of Wet-Dry Routes marker, Kansas Sibley's Ridge marker, Kansas Santa Fe Trail Survey, 1 Sep 1825 Coon Creek Crossing marker, Kansas Santa Fe Trail Survey campsite, 1-2 Sep 1825 Love's Defeat marker (1847), Kansas Coon Creek Battlefield marker (1848), Kansas Jackson's "Island" marker, Kansas Captain Philip St. George Cooke and US Dragoons disarm Colonel Jacob Snively and Texas free-booters intending to raid Mexican caravans on Santa Fe Trail (1843) Later Western Fork of Wet-Dry Routes marker, Kansas Fort Mann and Fort Atkinson markers, Kansas Caches (Initial Western Fork of Wet-Dry Routes) marker, KS Point of Rocks marker, Kansas Lower Crossing of Arkansas River marker, Kansas Cimarron Crossing of Arkansas River marker, Kansas Cimarron, Kansas to Santa Fe, New Mexico: Mountain Route Chouteau Island site and Indian Mound, Kansas Bent's New Fort marker, Colorado Old Fort Lyon (Fort Wise) site, Colorado Bent's Old Fort NHS, Colorado Iron Spring site marker, Comanche NG, Colorado Raton Pass, New Mexico Fort Union NM, New Mexico Las Vegas Old Town Plaza, New Mexico Puertocito de Piedra Lumbre, New Mexico Site of chance meeting of William Becknell's trading caravan and Captain Pedro Ignacio Gallegos' Mexican troops that led to opening of Santa Fe Trail (1821) Pecos NHP (Glorieta Battlefield, 1862), New Mexico San Miguel del Vado (1805 church) and San Jose, New Mexico Pecos River crossings Cimarron, Kansas to Santa Fe, New Mexico: Cimarron Route Chouteau Island site and Indian Mound, Kansas Lower Cimarron (Wagon Bed) Spring site marker, Kansas Middle Cimarron Spring marker, Cimarron NG, Kansas Point of Rocks marker, Cimarron NG, Kansas Wagon Mound, New Mexico Las Vegas Old Town Plaza, New Mexico Puertocito de Piedra Lumbre, New Mexico Pecos NHP (Glorieta Battlefield, 1862), New Mexico San Miguel del Vado (1805 church) and San Jose, New Mexico Pecos River crossings * Gardner, Kansas is where the Oregon Trail (Independence Branch) and Santa Fe Trail split. |
| Forts and Trading Posts Arkansas Post National Memorial, Arkansas Bent's New Fort marker, Colorado Bent's Old Fort NHS, Colorado Camp Floyd / Stagecoach Inn SP Museum, Utah Castillo de San Marcos NM, Florida Fort Apache Historic Park, Arizona Fort Atkinson marker, near Dodge City, Kansas Fort Atkinson SHP (replica), Nebraska Fort Belle Fontaine (St Louis) County Park, Missouri Fort Boise site marker, near Parma, Idaho Fort Bowie NHS, Arizona Fort Bridger SHS, Wyoming Fort Caspar Museum and Historic Site,Wyoming Fort Clatsop National Memorial, Oregon Fort Craig NHS, New Mexico Fort de Cavagnial marker, Kansas Fort Donelson NB, Tennessee Fort Fred Steele SHS, Wyoming Fort Gaines, Alabama Fort Gibson SHS, Oklahoma 1824 stockade replica Original post-Civil War buildings Fort Hall replica, Pocatello, Idaho Fort Harker, Kansas Fort Hays SHS, Kansas Fort Jesup SHS, Louisiana Fort Kearny SHP, Nebraska Fort Laramie NHS, Wyoming Fort Larned NHS, Kansas Fort Mandan Historic Site, North Dakota Fort Mann marker, Kansas Fort McPherson monument, Nebraska Fort Osage, Jackson County Historic Site, Missouri Fort Phil Kearny SHS, Wyoming Fort Pillow SHP, Tennessee Fort Recovery State Memorial, Ohio Fort Reno Historic Site, Oklahoma Fort Richardson SP-SHS, Texas Fort Ridgely SP-SHS, Minnesota Fort Riley - U.S. Cavalry Museum, Kansas Fort River Dubois, Lewis and Clark SHS, Illinois Fort Robinson SP-SHS, Nebraska Fort St. Jean Baptiste SHS, Louisiana Fort Scott NHS, Kansas Fort Sedgwick (Camp Rankin; site marker), Colorado Fort Selden SM, New Mexico Fort Smith NHS, Arkansas Fort Sumner SM - Bosque Redondo, New Mexico Fort Supply SHS, Oklahoma Fort Ticonderoga, New York Fort Umpqua marker (Hudson Bay Co.), Oregon Fort Union NM, New Mexico Fort Union Trading Post NHS, North Dakota Fort Wallace Cemetery and Museum, Kansas Fort Wingate site marker, New Mexico Second Fort Wingate site (1868-1925) Previously Fort Fauntleroy (1860)/Fort Lyon (1861) Fort Wise (Old Fort Lyon) site, Colorado Fort Zarah park marker, Kansas Los Adaes SHS, Louisiana |
7 Years War (French and Indian War)
Fort Necessity NB, Pennsylvania (July 1754) Braddock's Grave (July 1755) Fort Carillon (= Fort Ticonderoga), New York (July 1758) American Revolution Declaration of Independence Independence NHP, Pennsylvania (1776) War in the 13 Colonies Boston NHP (Freedom Trail), Massachusetts Minute Man NHP, Massachusetts (April 1775) Fort Ticonderoga, New York (May 1775) Washington Crossing SP, Pennsylvania (Dec 1776) Princeton Battlefield SP, New Jersey (Jan 1777) Morristown NHP, New Jersey (Winter 1777) Fort Ticonderoga, New York (July 1777) Brandywine Battlefield SP, Pennsylvania (Sep 1777) Saratoga NHP, New York (Sep-Oct 1777) Valley Forge NHP, Pennsylvania (1777-1778) Monmouth Battlefield SP, New Jersey (June 1778) Morristown NHP, New Jersey (1779-1780) Kings Mountain NMP, South Carolina (Oct 1780) Cowpens NBP, South Carolina (Jan 1781) Guilford Courthouse NMP, North Carolina (March 1781) Colonial NHP, Virginia Cape Henry Memorial (Battle of the Capes, 5 Sep 1781) Yorktown Battlefield (Sep-Oct 1781) War in the Western Territories George Rogers Clark NHP, Indiana Capture of Fort Sackville (Feb 1779) St. Louis (Fort San Carlos, unmarked site downtown), Missouri Spanish repel British partisans and Indian allies (May 1780) Blue Licks Battlefield SP, Kentucky Kentucky militia defeated by British and Indian allies (Aug 1782) Arkansas Post National Memorial (Fort Carlos III), Arkansas Spanish/Quapaw repel British partisans/Chickasaw (April 1783) Constitutional Convention Independence NHP, Pennsylvania (1787) War of 1812 USS Constitution, Boston, Massachusetts Campbell's Island State Memorial, East Moline, Illinois (July 1814) US soldiers and rangers defeated by Sauk, led by Black Hawk Credit Island, Davenport, Iowa (Sep 1814) US soldiers and militia led by Zachary Taylor defeated by British and Indian allies (including Black Hawk) Hannah Cole's Fort marker, Boonville, Missouri (1814) Jean Lafitte NHP and Preserve, Louisiana Chalmette Battlefield (Battle of New Orleans; Jan 1815) US - Mexican War San Pasqual Battlefield markers, California (6 Dec 1846) Mule Hill Battlefield markers, California (7-11 Dec 1846) Brazito (Temascalitos) Battlefield site, New Mexico (25 Dec 1846) Governor Bent's House, Taos, New Mexico (19 Jan 1847) Cañada Battlefield site, New Mexico (24 Jan 1847) Embudo Pass Battlefield site, New Mexico (29 Jan 1847) Taos Pueblo Battlefield site, New Mexico (3-5 Feb 1847) Mesilla Plaza / Gadsden Purchase, New Mexico (16 Nov 1854) Flag-changing ceremony for 1853 treaty to set final boundary |
| Bleeding Kansas (1854-1861) 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act (May 30) Kansas Museum of History, Topeka (on exhibit) 1855 First Territorial Capitol SHS (July; Geary Co.) Topeka Constitution (1855); first of 4 constitutions. Constitution Hall (Shawnee Co.) Without slavery, but excluded African-Americans. Wakarusa War, siege of Lawrence (Dec; Douglas Co.) Blanton's Crossing, Franklin, Lecompton, Lawrence 1856: "Kansas Civil War" Camp Sackett* (Douglas Co.) US military tent camp, SW of Lecompton Sack of Lawrence, Free State Hotel site (May 21) Pottawatomie Massacre* (May 24-25; Franklin Co.) Battle of Black Jack Park (June 2; Douglas Co.) Battle of Franklin* (June 4-5; Douglas Co.) Free-state legislature dispersed by US troops (July 4) Constitution Hall (Shawnee Co.) Removal of proslavery outposts around Lawrence: Battle of Franklin* (Aug 12; Douglas Co.) Battle of Fort Saunders* (Aug 15; Douglas Co.) Battle of Fort Titus* (Aug 16; Douglas Co.) Battle of Middle Creek* (Aug 25; Linn Co.) Battle of Osawatomie (Aug 30; Miami Co.) John Brown Memorial Park; John Brown SHS Battle of Bull Creek* (Aug 31; Johnson Co.) Battle of Hickory Point marker (Sep 13-14; Jefferson Co.) Siege of Lawrence (Sep; Douglas Co.) 1857 Lecompton Constitution (Douglas Co.) Constitution Hall SHS With slavery. Beecher Bible and Rifle Church (Wabaunsee Co.) Organized as First Church of Christ in 1857 Limestone church dedicated in 1862. 1858 Leavenworth Constitution (Leavenworth Co.) Without slavery, with African-American citizenship. Marais des Cygnes Massacre SHS (May 19; Linn Co.) 1859-1861 Battle of the Spurs site (31 Jan 1859; Brown Co.) John Brown leaves for Canada with freed slaves. Wyandotte Constitution (1859; Wyandotte Co.) Without slavery. Approved by US House (11 April 1860) Approved by US Senate (21 Jan 1861) Signed by President Buchanan (29 Jan 1861) * = specific site not marked. Italics = John Brown event. Utah "War" (1857-1861) Simpson's Hollow marker, Wyoming (Oct 1857) Mormon attack on US Army supply train Fort Bridger SHS, Wyoming (winter of 1857-1858) US Army encampment Echo Canyon, Utah (1857) Mormon breastworks to defend eastern approach to Salt Lake Basin via Mormon Trail Camp Floyd / Stagecoach Inn SP Museum, Utah (1858-1861) US Army encampment Slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and Civil Rights Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, Nissouri Old Courthouse: Dred Scott cases (1847, 1850) Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Kansas City, Missouri Brown v. Board of Education NHS, Topeka, Kansas Supreme Court rules racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional (17 May 1954) Little Rock Central High School NHS, Arkansas Federal troops deployed to escort 9 African-American students at newly integrated school (1957) Chester I. Lewis Reflection Square Park, Wichita, Kansas Dockum (Rexall) Drugs lunch-counter sit-in sculpture First such sit-in in the nation (July-August 1958) Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail 1965 Voting Rights March "Bloody Sunday" -- state troopers stop first march at Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma (7 March) Voting Rights March -- 5 days, 54 miles (21 March) National Voting Rights Act passed (6 August) Lorraine Motel, Memphis, Tennessee Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (4 April 1968) |
Civil War Battlefields
Trans-Mississippi: Missouri Region Battle of Boonville marker, Missouri (June 1861) Battle of Carthage SHS, Missouri (July 1861) Battle of Athens SHS, Missouri (Aug 1861) Wilson's Creek NB, Missouri (Aug 1861) Osceola, Missouri (burned by Jayhawkers; Sep 1861) Battle of Lexington SHS, Missouri (Sep 1861) Humboldt markers, Kansas (burned by Confederates; Oct 1861) Battle of Belmont, Missouri (Nov 1861) Belmont Landing site marker, Missouri Columbus-Belmont SP, Kentucky Battle of Mt. Zion Church site marker, Missouri (Dec 1861) Opothleyahola's Trail of Blood on Ice (Winter 1861-1862) Creek and other Unionist Indians forced from Indian Territory Round Mountain Battlefield marker (19 Nov 1861) Round Mountains and Salt Creek (W of Yale, Oklahoma)? Chusto-Talasah Battlefield area ( 9 Dec 1861) Horseshoe Bend, Bird Creek (NE of Turley, Oklahoma) Chustenahlah Battlefield marker (26 Dec 1861) Hominy and Battle Creeks (W of Skiatook, Oklahoma) Unionist Indians seek relief during winter 1861-1862 Fort Row marker (militia post; N of Fredonia., Kansas) Fort Belmont area (militia post; SW of Yates Center, KS) Opothleyahola Memorial (Le Roy, Kansas) Pea Ridge NMP, Arkansas (March 1862) Battle of Locust Grove marker, Oklahoma (3 July 1862) Battle of Bayou Menard marker, Oklahoma (27 July 1862) Battle of Kirksville marker, Missouri (Aug 1862) Battle of Lone Jack marker, Missouri (Aug 1862) Battle of Beattie's Prairie, Oklahoma (Oct 1862) Maysville, Arkansas marker (attack Confederate skirmishers) Old Fort Wayne battlefield area (SW of Maysville) Battle of Cane Hill marker, Arkansas (28 Nov 1862) Prairie Grove Battlefield Historic SP, Arkansas (7 Dec 1862) Battle of Cabin Creek (I) site marker, Oklahoma (1-2 July 1863) Battle of Honey Springs SHS, Oklahoma (27 July 1863) Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence walking tour, Kansas (Aug 1863) General Order #11, Missouri (Aug 1863) Given at Pacific House Hotel building, Kansas City Fort Blair - Baxter Springs Museum, Kansas (Oct 1863) Battle of Marshall marker, Missouri (Oct 1863) Battle of Cabin Creek (II) site marker, Oklahoma (Sep 1864) Sterling Price's Raid through Missouri (Autumn 1864) *Skirmish at Rocheport town area, Missouri (23-24 Sep 1864) *Skirmish at Fayette town area, Missouri (24 Sep 1864) *Centralia Massacre site markers, Missouri (27 Sep 1864) *Battle of Centralia site marker, Missouri (27 Sep 1864) Fort Davidson SHS, Missouri (26-28 Sep 1864) Battle of Glasgow marker, Missouri (15 Oct 1864) Battle of Little Blue River marker, Kansas (21 Oct 1864) Battle of Independence markers, Missouri (22 Oct 1864) Battle of Westport site markers, Missouri (21-23 Oct 1864) Big Blue River - Byram's Ford site markers (22 Oct 1864) Mockbee Farm site marker (22 Oct 1864) Brush Creek (Loose Park) site markers (23 Oct 1864) Shelby's Last Stand (Forest Hill Cemetery) site (23 Oct 1864) Big Blue River - Byram's Ford site markers (23 Oct 1864) Mine Creek Battlefield SHS, Kansas (25 Oct 1864) Newtonia battlefield site, Missouri (28 Oct 1864) * Actions by "Bloody Bill" Anderson during Price's Raid Trans-Mississippi: Red River Campaign Mansfield SHS, Louisiana (8 April 1864) Pleasant Hill site, Louisiana (9 April 1864) Poison Springs Battlefield SP, Arkansas (18 April 1864) Marks' Mills Battlefield SP, Arkansas (25 April 1864) Jenkins Ferry Battlefield SP, Arkansas (29-30 April 1864) Mansura marker, Louisiana (16 May 1864) Yellow Bayou (Simmesport) site, Louisiana (18 May 1864) Trans-Mississippi: New Mexico and Arizona San Agustin Springs marker, San Agustin Pass, New Mexico Capture of Union troops fleeing Fort Fillmore (July 1861) Fort Craig NHS (BLM), New Mexico Battle of Valverde (Feb 1862) Pecos NHP, New Mexico Battle of Glorieta (March 1862) Picacho Peak SP, Arizona (April 1862) Mississippi River and Tennessee Region Fort Donelson NB, Tennessee (Feb 1862) New Madrid-Island No. 10 marker, Missouri (March-April 1862) Shiloh NMP, Tennessee (April 1862) Corinth Battlefield, Mississippi (May 1862; Oct 1862) Perryville Battlefield SHP, Kentucky (Oct 1862) Stones River NB, Tennessee (31 Dec 1862; 2 Jan 1863) Arkansas Post National Memorial, Arkansas Fort Hindman (Jan 1863) Vicksburg Campaign USS Cairo, Vicksburg, Mississippi (1863) Chickasaw Bayou site, Mississippi (Dec 1862) Port Gibson site markers, Mississippi (1 May 1863) Raymond site markers, Mississippi (12 May 1863) Champion Hill site markers, Mississippi (16 May 1863) Big Black River Bridge site, Mississippi (17 May 1863) Vicksburg NMP, Mississippi (March-July 1863) Port Hudson SHS, Louisiana (May-July 1863) Battle for Hoover's Gap park, Tennessee (June 1863) Chickamauga and Chattanooga NMP Chickamauga, Georgia (Sep 1863) Chattanooga, Tennessee (Nov 1863) Brices Cross Roads NB Site, Mississippi (June 1864) Fort Pillow SHP, Tennessee (April 1864) The Carter House - Franklin Battlefield, Tennessee (Nov 1864) Eastern United States: Virginia Region Manassas NBP, Virginia (July 1861; Aug 1862) Antietam NB, Maryland (Sep 1862) Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania NMP, Virginia Chancellorsville Battlefield (May 1863) Gettysburg NMP, Pennsylvania (July 1863) Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania NMP, Virginia Spotsylvania Courthouse Battlefield (May 1864) Appomattox Court House NHP, Virginia McLean Home - Lee's surrender (9 April 1865) Gulf Coast Mobile Bay (Fort Gaines - Dauphin Island), Alabama (Aug 1864) |
| Early American Indian Sites Paleoindian and Archaic Sites Blackwater Draw Archeological Site, New Mexico Clovis type-site and subsequent cultures Copper Culture SP, Wisconsin Mastodon SHS, Missouri Poverty Point SHS, Louisiana (1700-1300 BCE) (early site with mounds and embankment) Woodland and Mississippian Moundbuilder Sites Conical, Ridge-top, and Platform Mounds Angel Mounds SHS, Indiana Aztalan SP, Wisconsin Cahokia Mounds SHS, Illinois (800-1300) Emerald Mound, Mississippi Hopewell Culture NHP, Ohio Marksville SHS, Louisiana Miamisburg Mound, Ohio Moundville Archeological Park, Alabama Parkin Archeological SP, Arkansas Spiro Mounds Archaeological SP, Oklahoma Toltec Mounds Archeological SP, Arkansas Towosaghy SHS, Missouri Van Meter SP, Missouri Wickliffe Mounds SP, Kentucky Hilltop Enclosures Fort Ancient State Memorial, Ohio Geometrical Embankments Effigy Mounds Effigy Mounds NM, Iowa Serpent Mound State Memorial, Ohio Southwestern Pueblo Sites Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi) and Historical Pueblo Sites Anasazi Heritage Center (BLM), Colorado Escalante Pueblo and Dominguez Pueblo Aztec Ruins NM, New Mexico Bandelier NM, New Mexico Canyon de Chelly NM, Arizona Canyons of the Ancients NM, Colorado Lowrey Pueblo and Sand Canyon Pueblo Chaco Culture NHP, New Mexico (850-1250) Chimney Rock Archeological Site (USFS), Colorado Coronado SM, New Mexico Edge of the Cedars SP Museum, Utah El Cuartelejo Pueblo, Scott Lake SP, Kansas Taos and Picuris refugees from Spanish New Mexico El Morro NM, New Mexico: A'ts'ina Pueblo Homol'ovi Ruins SP, Arizona Hovenweep NM, Utah: Square Tower Group Jemez SM, New Mexico Mesa Verde NP, Colorado (600-1300) Pecos NHP, New Mexico Petrified Forest NP, Arizona Puerco Pueblo and Agate House Petroglyph NM, New Mexico Salinas Pueblo Missions NM, New Mexico Gran Quivira and Quarai Units Taos Pueblo, New Mexico (1000?-present) Yucca House NM, Colorado Mogollon Sites Gila Cliff Dwellings NM, New Mexico Three Rivers Petroglyph Site (BLM), New Mexico Hohokam Sites Casa Grande Ruins NM, Arizona Kinishba Ruins, Fort Apache Historic Park, Arizona Montezuma Castle NM, Arizona Montezuma Well Unit Salado Sites Tonto NM, Arizona Sinagua Sites Montezuma Castle NM, Arizona Montezuma Castle and Montezuma Well Units Tuzigoot NM, Arizona Walnut Canyon NM, Arizona Wupatki NM, Arizona Fremont Sites Baker Village Archeological Site (BLM), Nevada Canyon Pintado NHD (BLM), Colorado Midwestern American Indian Sites Village Sites Iliniwek Village SHS, Missouri (~1640-1683) Jolliet and Marquette Expedition (1673) Black Hawk SHS, Illinois Sauk and Mesquakie (Fox) village sites (~1750-1831) Midwestern Conflicts Fort Recovery State Memorial, Ohio General St. Clair's defeat (Nov 1791) Fort Recovery (June-July 1794) Battle of Fallen Timbers Memorial, Ohio (Aug 1794) Tippecanoe Battlefield and Museum, Indiana (Nov 1811) Black Hawk War Wisconsin Heights Battlefield, Wisconsin (July 1832) Lower Wisconsin State Riverway Battle of Bad Axe site markers, Wisconsin (Aug 1832) Western American Indian Sites Nez Perce NHP Sites Lewis & Clark Sites Canoe Camp (Sep-Oct 1805), Idaho Lolo Pass (Sep 1805 and June 1806), Idaho - Montana Long Camp (Spring 1806), Idaho Weippe Prairie (Sep 1805 and June 1806), Idaho 1877 Exodus Sites Camas Prairie - Tolo Lake Overlook, Idaho (June 1877) White Bird Battlefield (17 June 1877), Idaho Cottonwood Skirmishes (3 and 5 July 1877), Idaho Clearwater Battlefield (12 July 1877), Idaho Weippe Prairie (July 1877 council), Idaho Lolo Trail - Lolo Pass, Idaho - Montana Big Hole Battlefield (9-10 Aug 1877), Montana Bear Paw Battlefield (30 Sep-5 Oct 1877), Montana Other Western Sites Gunnison Massacre Site site marker, Utah (Oct 1853) Bear River Massacre site marker, Idaho (Jan 1863) Meeker Massacre site marker, Colorado (Sep 1879) Milk River Battlefield park, Colorado (Sep-Oct 1879) |
Great Plains American Indian Sites
Mid-America All-Indian Center Museum, Wichita, Kansas Keeper of the Plains sculpture Village and Mission Sites Cherry Creek Encampment memorial, Cheyenne Co., Kansas Dec 1864 - Jan 1865 (following Sand Creek Massacre) Cheyenne-Oglala Village Site marker, Ness Co., Kansas April 1867 (village destroyed by General Hancock) Kaw Mission SHS, Kansas Knife River Villages NHS, North Dakota Osage Village SHS, Missouri Pawnee Village SHS, Kansas Shawnee Indian Mission SHS, Kansas Van Meter SP, Missouri (Oneota/Missouri, 1450-1777) Northern Plains Conflicts Civil War Period Lower Sioux Agency SHS, Minnesota (18 Aug 1862) Fort Ridgely SHS, Minnesota (20 and 22 Aug 1862) Birch Coulee Battlefield SHS, Minnesota (2 Sep 1862) Wood Lake SM, Minnesota (23 Sep 1862) Camp Release SM, Minnesota (26 Sep 1862) Whitestone Hill Battlefield SHS, North Dakota (Sep 1863) Killdeer Battlefield SHS, North Dakota (July 1864) Conner Battlefield SHS, Wyoming (Aug 1865) Fort Phil Kearny SHS, Wyoming Fetterman Battlefield (Dec 1866) Wagon Box Battlefield (Aug 1867) Rosebud Battlefield SHS, Montana (17 June 1876) Little Bighorn Battlefield NM, Montana (25 June 1876) Wounded Knee Massacre marker, South Dakota (Dec 1890) Central-Southern Plains Conflicts Treaty Sites Osage Treaty marker, Council Grove, Kansas (1825) Santa Fe Trail passage treaty with Osage Kaw Treaty marker, near Elyria, Kansas (1825) Santa Fe Trail passage treaty with Kansa Horse Creek (Fort Laramie) Treaty marker, Nebraska (1851) Fort Wise (Old Fort Lyon) Treaty site, Colorado (1861) Medicine Lodge Treaty marker, Kansas (1867) Wolf Creek Battlefield area (summer 1838), Oklahoma Cheyenne-Arapaho v. Comanche-Kiowa Peace between tribes arranged at Bent's Fort (1840) Love's Defeat marker (July 1847), Kansas Coon Creek Battlefield marker, Kansas (June 1848) Grattan Battlefield marker, Wyoming (Aug 1854) Bluewater Creek Battlefield site, Nebraska (Sep 1855) Solomon's Fork Battlefield area, Kansas (July 1857) Battle of Wichita Camp marker, Oklahoma (Oct 1858) Comanches attacked near Wichita camp near Rush Springs Crooked Creek Battlefield area, Kansas (May 1859) Indian Raids along Oregon Trail in Nebraska (Aug 1864) Kiowa Station site marker Emory Stagecoach Ambush site marker Bowie Ranch site marker Oak Grove Station site marker Pawnee Ranch site marker Spring Ranch site markers Plum Creek Massacre site marker Adobe Walls State Archeological Landmark, Texas (Nov 1864) Sand Creek Massacre and Aftermath Sites Fort Wise (Old Fort Lyon) site, Colorado Departure point to Sand Creek for troops (28 Nov 1864) Sand Creek Massacre NHS, Colorado (29 Nov 1864) [First visitor on opening day for NHS: 1 June 2007] Cherry Creek Encampment memorial, Kansas Gathering of Plains tribes (Dec 1864-Jan 1865) Camp Rankin - Fort Sedgwick site marker, Colorado Battle of First Julesburg (7 Jan 1865) Valley Station site marker, Colorado (Jan 1865) Godfrey's Station site marker, Colorado (Jan 1865) Mud Springs Station site marker, Nebraska Battle (4-6 Feb 1865) Rush Creek Battlefield area, Nebraska (8-9 Feb 1865) Near mouth of stream now named Cedar Creek Fort Caspar Historic Site, Wyoming Battle of Platte Bridge (26 July 1865) Battle of Red Buttes marker, Wyoming (26 July 1865) Cheyenne-Oglala Village site marker, Kansas Village destroyed by General Hancock (17 April 1867) Custer Camp Site and Skirmish marker, Nebraska (June 1867) Kidder Battlefield markers, Kansas (July 1867) Beecher Island Battlefield park trail, Colorado (Sep 1868) Washita Battle Sites Fort [Camp] Supply SHS, Oklahoma Washita Battlefield NHS, Oklahoma (Nov 1868) Kansas Victims of 1868-1869 Indian Raids - Memorials Delphos Cemetery, Anna Morgan gravesite (Oct 1868) Held by Cheyenne; returned by Custer (March 1869) Lincoln Co. Courthouse Monument (May 1869) 13 killed, 2 captured; others killed in Republic Co. Summit Springs Battlefield site marker, Colorado (July 1869) Little Wichita River Battlefield marker, Texas (July 1870) Massacre Canyon Battlefield marker, Nebraska (Aug 1873) Lakota v. Pawnee Red River War Adobe Walls State Archeological Landmark, Texas (June 1874) Wichita Agency site, Oklahoma (Aug 1874) Palo Duro Canyon SP, Texas (Sep 1874) Fort Wallace Cemetery, German family gravesites (Sep 1874) Father, mother, son, and oldest daughter killed 4 daughters captured; returned in winter of 1874-1875 Dark Water Battlefield area, Kansas (April 1875) Dark Water = Sappa Creek Northern Cheyenne Exodus from Southern Reservation Fort Reno Historic Site, Oklahoma (Sep 1878) Darlington Agency site (across Canadian River) Punished Woman Fork Battlefield site marker, Kansas (Sep 1878) Punished Woman Fork = Ladder Creek Oberlin Cemetery monument and marker (Sep 1878) 19 (of 40) settlers and herders killed in Decatur County Fort Robinson SP-SHS, Nebraska (Jan 1879) |
| Plains Homesteads, Towns, etc. (1800s) Homestead National Monument of America, Nebraska Vegetarian Colony, Kansas (abandoned; marker) Agricultural colony of vegetarians: 1856-1857 Old Mill Museum, Lindsborg, Kansas (1898) Swedish town: founded 1869 Mennonite Settlement Museum, Hillsboro, Kansas Russian-Polish Mennonite immigrants Peter Paul Loewen House: built 1876 Jacob Friesen Windmill replica (original: 1876) Nicodemus NHS, Kansas Exoduster town: founded 1877 Beersheba, Kansas (abandoned; marker) Russian-Jewish agricultural colony: 1882-1886 Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Kansas Spring Hill Farm and Stock Ranch Three-story limestone house completed in 1881 Cottonwood Ranch SHS, Kansas English-style ranch, limestone buildings: 1885-1896 World War I Sites US Sites Liberty Memorial / National World War I Museum Kansas City, Missouri European Sites World War II Sites US Sites Camp Amache (Granada Relocation Center), Colorado Japanese-American internment camp, 1942-1945 Camp Concordia (POW camp), Kansas Housed ~4000 German prisoners, 1943-1945 European Sites Belgium Great Britain Aftermath Sites Winston Churchill Memorial, Fulton, Missouri "Iron Curtain" speech, Westminster College (1946) |
Miscellaneous Civil Unrest
Lincoln County War, New Mexico (1878-1879) Lincoln SM Kansas County Seat "Wars" (1887-1893) Wichita County (Coronado vs. Leoti) Coronado, Kansas (abandoned townsite east of Leoti; unmarked). 27 February 1887: Coronado Fight. Shootout started by 7 men from Leoti -- 3 of whom were killed. Several from both towns wounded. Leoti, Kansas (current county seat). Stevens County (Hugoton vs. Woodsdale) Hugoton, Kansas (current county seat). 5 June 1888: Hugoton Fight. Shootout with men from Woodsdale attempting to arrest Hugoton City Marshall. 22-23 June 1888: Vote canvass for railroad bonds. 2 companies of state militia maintained order. Wild Horse (Playa) Lake, Oklahoma ("No Man's Land") 25-26 July 1888: Hay Meadow Massacre. Hugoton City Marshall murders 4 of 5 men in posse from Woodsdale. 8 companies (~600 men) of state militia dispatched to quell violence in the county. Woodsdale, Kansas (abandoned townsite; unmarked). Gray County (Cimarron vs. Ingalls) Cimarron, Kansas (current county seat). 12 January 1889: Cimarron Fight. Shootout with Ingalls men over county records. 1 man from Cimarron killed. 2 companies of state militia sent to restore order. Ingalls, Kansas (extant town). Seward County Springfield, Kansas (former county seat; abandoned; site marker). 5 January 1892: Big Canyon Fight. County sheriff shot and killed by men from Springfield who planned to kill district judge. Parts of 3 companies of state militia sent to restore order around Springfield (county seat at the time). Garfield County (Ravanna vs. Eminence) Ravanna, Kansas (First county seat; abandoned; unmarked). Ruins of sandstone courthouse building extant in pasture along county road. Eminence, Kansas (Second county seat; abandoned; unmarked). Shots fired in anger during transfer of county records. 1887-1893: County organized, then disorganized. Garfield County had 432 sections minimum required for county, but resurvey showed some sections were not full 640 acres. Garfield County now comprises eastern Finney County. |