Lawrence And The Old Trails in Kansas

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	Lawrence And The Old Trails
Kansas State Historical Marker
Leavenworth County
	KS, USA

	Between Lawrence and Topeka, the Kansas turnpike passes near the route of the old Oregon-California Trail, traveled in the 1800s by explorers, missionaries, soldiers, emigrants in search of land, and forty-niners in search of gold. Fifteen miles south of here was the Santa Fe Trail, which for more than 50 years served mainly as a trail of trade and commerce. From the Missouri River it was some 2,000 miles to Oregon and California and around 800 to Santa Fe, following trails established centuries earlier by Native Americans. Tribes living in this area during the 1800s included the Delaware, Kaw, Kickapoo, Shawnee, and Wyandot. I-70 (Kansas Turnpike), Leavenworth County Milepost 209, service area 6 miles east of Lawrence