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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.
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.
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: 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.
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 ...
The Last Chance Store was built in 1857 along the Santa Fe Trail at Council Grove, Kansas. Located where the trail crossed the Neosho River, it was the last store in the settlement before the river. It was operated by Tom Hill as a trading post, as well as a post office and a polling place.
The Simcock House is a historic house at 206-208 Columbia Street in Council Grove, Kansas. Goodson M. Simcock, who settled in Council Grove in 1849 to work at a store on the Santa Fe Trail, built the house for his family. Simcock promised his wife a new house after the couple had their first child in 1857, and the house was built sometime ...
Council Grove's Post is a trading post on the Santa Fe Trail that operated in Council Grove, Kansas. It was established around 1861 and decommissioned around 1864, with ties to the Civil War . History