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Fridav. October 16, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Antiques, markers show history is bountiful in Baldwin City area
By KIRK ADAMS
From the KU Weather Service
Staff writer
BALDWIN CITY — Just 10 miles south of Lawrence on U.S. Highway 59 and five miles east on state Highway 56 is Baldwin City, blanketed in maple leaves and marked by Kansas' early history.
The town is splattered with the oranges and reds of maple and other trees that frame the activities of about 2,800 people. Tomorrow and Sunday, the city will celebrate its 30th annual Maple Leaf Festival, which pays tribute to the changing colors of the leaves.
Baldwin City is home to Baker University and its 1,000 students. Baker was the first four-year college in Kansas and was founded in 1858. The original building is now the Old Castle Museum, 515 Fifth St. Old Castle Museum, which educates students center before work on the Baker campus was started.
The museum is open to the public and displays antiques from Kansas' history as well as other curiosities from around the world. Included is a display of early medical equipment, an旧印书 press, a sacred American Indian artifact, a rare antique dresses, a quilt collection, walking canes and china dolls.
Another display of antiques in Baldwin City is the famous Quayle Bible Collection at the university's Library, Eighth and Fremont shrubs.
The collection of rare Bibles was donated to the university by Bishop William Alfred Quayle on his death in 1925. Quayle attended Baker and was later chosen president of the university. The collection also includes examples of early printing along with clay tablets and scrolls.
The battle resulted from the raid on Lawrence in May 1856, when proslavery militants destroyed buildings and newspaper presses.
Several Kansas historical markers around town explain the history of Baldwin City and some of the pre-Civil War events that occurred there. About three miles east on state Highway 56 is a marker at the Ivan Boyd Prairie Preserve that tells of the Battle of Black Jack.
Just east of the city, the road follows and often crosses the Santa Fe Trail. The trail was a wagon-cut path that led from Franklin, Mo., to Santa Fe, N.M., and was the major highway to the west in the middle of the 19th century. The Oregon/California Trail branches off the Santa Fe to the northwest, outside of Baldwin City.
On June 2, John Brown, an anti-slavery leader, and a company of men attacked a camp of pro-slavery militants in a grove of black jack oaks at a site about a quarter-mile south of the marker. Many militants were wounded and several deserted before they surrendered. The event was one of the first battles that led to the Civil War.
The preserve, which is accessible by road, consists of 18 acres of virgin prairie that were purchased by Douglas County in 1967.
Native flowers and prairie grasses inhabit the field dominated by tall light brown-colored grass. Flowers bloom purple and yellow. Bristly stems, clumps of tiny yellow fruit, spiked ball tops, reddish leaves and fuzzy pussy willow cylinders stretch to meet the sun's kisses.
The scars of ruts carved by wagon wheels traveling the Santa Fe can be seen on the hillside. Two deep and
somewhat parallel grooves remain as evidence of the thousands of wagons that crossed there.
At the top of the hill is a gray stone marker left by an early surveying team. The date, 1825, still is visible.
List of Activities
Saturday only
A display of antique cars will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Third St. and Highway 56
The Maple Leaf Magic Parade will start at 11 a.m. at Second Street, go west on High to Eighth and north on Eighth to Chapel. Senior citizens' bleachers are at Eighth and Grove streets.
A square dance will be from 8 to 11 p.m. at the Baker Gym, Sixth and Fremont.
- More than 250 booths featuring arts, crafts, souvenirs and food will be along Eighth and High streets.
Saturday and Sunday:
Free bus tours at Eighth and High streets will take festival-goers to historic sites.
Hourly train rides will go from 12 to 4 p.m. on the Midland Historical Railroad at The Santa Fe Railroad Depot, a national and Kansas historic site on High Street in west Baldwin.
A cookout will be from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and until food run out Sunday at Eighth and High streets.
Airplane rides will be offered from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Vinland Airport in 1055 north of Baldwin City.
■ "The Ballad of Sweet Lucy," a historical melodrama written by Don Mueller especially for this year's festival will show at 1, 3, and 5 p.m. both days and 7 p.m. Saturday at the Olio Theater. Tickets are available at the theater box office, Eighth and High streets.
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sophomore and a member of the Phi Mu sorority, said most youth organizations think the planning of the festival should be left to the town.
"I keep telling them that I'm not going to be able to do this forever," she said. "But, there will always be
"We support the festival by working in booths and being in the parade but there's not enough time to help plan during the year," she said.
Wise said most of the people who lived in Baldwin City when the festival began were gone, and it was harder to find people to replace them.
someone dumb like me to take over."
To most Baldwin City residents, Wise's name has become synonymous with the festival. In fact, some of her students call to wake Will. "Mrs. Maple Leaf."
Wise has seen the festival grow from a local picnic to a regional event that attracts more than 20,000 people. The annual grows larger. Wise works harder.
She said some current residents don't like the festival because of the crowds and parking shortage. She also believes that the prestige and money the
festival brings to Baldwin City out weighs the resentment of a dis gruntled minority.
"There's nothing you can do about the growth of the festival. We've cut our advertising down but they just keep coming." Wise said.
Wise has seen it all in her 30 years of working with the festival. From the time a few locals killed and barbecued a buffalo to the year the festivalhad a contest to see who could grow the longest beard, Wise was there.
"We've gotten a little more sophisticated since then.
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