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The Council Grove Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District located in Council Grove, Kansas, United States.It consists of six discontiguous areas in the city important in the history of the Santa Fe Trail and American migration to the west in the 19th century.
The Cottage House Hotel is a historic hotel at 25 N. Neosho Street in Council Grove, Kansas. The original hotel was built in 1871-72 around a small house built in 1867; the two-story Italianate hotel was originally a boarding house with a small number of renters. Banker Lewis Mead and his first wife Sarah Marks Mead bought the hotel in 1879 ...
Council Grove is a city in and the county seat of Morris County, Kansas, United States. [1] As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 2,140. [4] It was named after an agreement between American settlers and the Osage Nation allowing settlers' wagon trains to pass westward through the area on the Santa Fe Trail.
Council Grove: Council Grove was named in 1825 when Government Survey Commissioners made treaties with Osage Indians which guaranteed safe passage for travelers on the Santa Fe Trail. 7: Council Grove Missouri, Kansas and Texas Depot: Council Grove Missouri, Kansas and Texas Depot: October 11, 2001 : 512 E. Main St.
The Council Grove Downtown Historic District is a 25.8 acres (10.4 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. [ 1 ] The historic district contains seventy-one buildings dating from the mid and late 19th and early 20th century.
Council Grove, Kansas, was a town with mixed loyalties during the Civil War.While the majority of the area's citizens supported the Union cause, quite a number of residents had ties to the south and many sympathized with the Confederacy.
The Seth Hays House is a historic house at 203 Wood Street in Council Grove, Kansas. Seth Hays, the first white settler in Council Grove, built the house in 1867. [2] A Missouri native, Hays originally moved to Council Grove to start a trading post for Boone & Hamilton; he eventually owned the trading post himself, and he also started a local newspaper and the town's first bank.
Kaw Mission is a historic church mission in Council Grove, Kansas that was home, school and church to 30 Kaw boys from 1851 to 1854. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. [1] [2] The site is now administered by the Kansas Historical Society as Kaw Mission State Historic Site. Displays include Kaw items and mid-19th ...