Alcove Spring in Marshall County, Kansas.Alcove, Marshall County –Now a well-preserved park. This was never an official town but was a stop on the Oregon Trail. Numerous carvings in the spring’s rocks feature
Today, Hays has a population of over 20,000 and is the county seat of Ellis County.Hunnewell –In the 1880s, Hunnewell flourished briefly as a shipping point for Texas cattle. Located on the Kansas – Oklahoma border in Sumner County, the Leavenworth, Lawrence, and Galveston Railroad ...
Shawnee, Osage, and Kansa once lived on the land that is nowPrairie Village, part of the Kansas City, Missouri, metro area. As settlers moved west, families stopped to farm in and around the area. In the 1940s, the land was turned into housing for returning servicemen and their families...