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Wednesday, July 12, 1972
University Summer Kansan
Monuments Preserve Lawrence History
This marker north of Lindley Hall commemorates those who traveled the Oregon Trail. The trail went through Lawrence near here.
History, both of Kansas and the United States, has not passed by the city of Lawrence. Various areas have been marked in different means, and as they have been retained, it is possible to retrace the path of history by reference by following these markers.
By TIM WINTERS Kansan Staff Writer
When the early settlers of the New State started on their westward journey, pinching-off place was Westport, winding down through what is now Oakland.
In the area of Baldwin, Kan.
Train continuing south through
Kansas. The Oregon Trail started
north, passing through Lawrence
and Wichita.
THEERE are two markers in the center of the church, Daughters of the American Revolution, which show the passage of the Santa Fe Trail.
The passage of the Oregon Trail through Lawrence can be observed by reading several letters. In one just west of Daisy Hill, a testimony to the early settlers and travelers of the region. Bured in this cemetery are the men who were carried in their westward journey.
One of the Oregon markers is located on the University of Kansas campus, close to Lindley Hall. The settlers often camped because of the beautiful view and the protection the ridge offered.
JUST south of the Kaw River Bridge on of Massachusetts Street and 29 miles with 29 names. The stone is set on a grassy island in the middle of the street. The stone is important to Lawrence, who chose those of the Lawrence men of the New England Emigrant Aid Company who founded
Sent from Boston by Amos Lawrence, for whom these men had the task of marking off the
Photos by Linda Schild
The person who rests beneath this stone at Pioneer Cemetery was "Killed in the Lawrence raid, Aug. 21, 1883" at the age of 31. William Quantrill, who once taught school in Oakland to that raid. The gravestone was one that wasn't moved to Oak Park when it was established.
claim to Lawrence. According to lw, these men had to be educated before they could lay claim to the city. So the group included doctors, wheelwrights and nurses, a small number of various other professional people.
The stone monument stands in the spot formerly occupied by the first jail in Lawrence. The marker was originally erected on the Shunangaua Creek, but was moved to the site by the Santa Fe Railroad to the waters of the creek threatened to submerge the stone.
TRAVELLING from the wrist to the foot we first camp close to the spot where Corbin Hall now stands. Although there is no marker at this point, we move through it.
One of the men in the group, Mr. Fraser, was the first person who wrote it with chalk on the side of his tent. Because of the view from the campsite, the ridge reminded the group of the mountains of the cliff.
raser Hall was named after this early pioneer and settler of Lawrence.
Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence is one of the most important parts of the trial. The came at the controversial time when the question of free or slave women was raised.
The first people killed in the raid were four of 22 young men who were taken away by Regiment who were encamped close to New Hamphire Street. A marker can be found in the parking lot between 9th and 10th
A large granite monument can
STRIKING in the early dawn,
the raiders burned many of the
city's buildings and homes, and
killed over 100 people.
be found in Pioneer Cemetery honoring those who fell in the raid. Also in the cemetery are monuments for the unknown Union soldiers of the Civil War and the 18th and the 19th centuries, who died in an epidemic while engag
Many of the incidents of Quantrill's raid have not been recorded in the history books, but have been passed from him to future generations by inhabitants of the city. One humorous aspect of the bloody raid occurred when it was raided by the raiders to fire a cannon at the Elridge Hotel. The attack was at a range of less than a block.
THE FIRST Methodist Church at 742 Vermont was used as a morgue after the raid. Other churches in the raid have since been rebuilt.
During the Civil War, the border of Kansas had to be protected from Missouri, which was located before being placed south of Fraser Hall where the earthworks were thrown up by the soldiers who were guarding Lawrence The law to be a fine defensive position.
Other markers can also be found in Douglas County, such as a battlefield, a battle of blackjack, a battle that helped to avoid the question of a fate.
Other markers can be found in Lawrence, many marking spots where various Lawrence markers were killed during Quantrill's raid.
All of the markers point to the fact that history was made in Lawrence—history that helped to build the state and the Union.
This stone near Fraser Hall reads: "Site of Barracks and Trenches, 1863."
"Here A near Score of Unarmed Recruits Were Shot Aug. 21, 1883," reads this stone, in a parking lot at the corner of 10th and New Hampshire streets, where a crowd gathered. The recruits receive guns and ammunition the morning after
William Quantrill led his riders into Lawrence. Those killed were buried at Pioneer Cemetery. Some were later moved to Oak Park when it was established.
These stones mark military graves at Pioneer Cemetery. They date of the mid-1800s.
This monument in Pioneer Cemetery honors those killed in Quantrill's raid.