BALDWIN CITY — A site near Baldwin City related to the Santa Fe Trail has been nominated by the state for the National Register of Historic Places — the Trail Park and Trail Park DAR marker. The Santa Fe Trail enters Douglas County at its extreme southeast corner east of Baldwin City and generally goes west, but it turns northwest as it nears Baldwin City. Maps indicate that this part of the trail north of Baldwin Cty was incorporated into the local road network early in the county’s history. Today, this road is a rare angled road in an otherwise gridded road pattern. In 1907, Civil War veteran Isaiah Stickle and his wife Jennie donated to Baker University a small half-acre parcel along the angled roadway to commemorate the trail and became known as Trail Park. Two chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the General Edward Hand Chapter of Ottawa and the Betty Washington Chapter of Lawrence, were among the first to organize in Kansas, and they placed a DAR marker in the park in 1907 as part of the Kansas DAR effort to place 93 granite markers along the 500 miles of the Santa Fe Trail in Kansas.
Monday, Nov. 19, 10 a.m.
