The Kaw Mission and Santa Fe Trail Tracks

Thursday, October 10th -- Council Grove, Kansas takes great pride in its preservation of local history and has a list of over 25 historical sites within the town limits and immediate surrounding area.

We started our exploration by visiting the Kaw Mission.

The Kaw Mission was built by the Methodist Episcopal Church and was home, school and church to 30 young Kaw Native American boys (mostly orphans) from 1851-1854. The Kaw did not receive the missionaries well, and the Mission was soon closed.

Charles Curtis was a student at the Kaw Mission, and went on to do good things for his people and other Native American tribes.

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Next on our list was to go in search of Santa Fe Trail Tracks. Council Grove has a site a few miles east of town where the trail crosses a creek. 

This site is on private property, but they have a small parking lot and a walking path going back toward some trees that surrounded the creek area. Unfortunately, the path doesn't get close enough to the creek to be able to see anything. So... once again, no trail tracks! But, wow, what an awesome view of some natural prairie grasses!

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