TOPEKA — Six Santa Fe Trail sites in Kansas have been added to the National Register of Historic Places. French Frank’s Santa Fe Trail Segment in Marion Ccounty has six swales where wagons followed the trail next to a ranch that served as a trail stop, and the Cottonwood Holes, which is mentioned in several historic accounts. Five areas along the so-called Cimarron River Route, in the Cimarron National Grassland in Morton County in extreme southwestern Kansas were also added. The 1200-mile Santa Fe Trail network was a major trading route between Independence, Mo., and Santa Fe, N.M. Parts of the trail went through Douglas County near present-day Baldwin City and through Osage County, near Burlingame.
Tuesday, June 11, 11 a.m.
