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University Daily Kansan / Monday, October 7, 1991 $^{1}$
Tour traces path of Oregon Trail, reveals historic sites in area
By Heather Anderson Kansan staff writer
A blue tour bus roamed the same path yesterday that thousands of covered wagons had traveled 150 years ago.
The tour, sponsored by the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department, gave about 20 people the chance to see the local area through which the historic Oregon Trail had passed.
Katie Armitage, tour guide and local historian, said she gave the tour
because she wanted to show people the trail's path.
She said many people did not even realize the trail had passed through the area because little evidence of it remained.
Many of the trail's physical traits, such as the deep ruts from wagon wheels, are impossible to see because they were plowed the land, Armitage said.
Between 1841 and 1869, 300,000 settlers traveled through Douglas County on their way from Independence, Mo., to Oregon and California. When the
railroad was built through the area in the late 1860s, the trail no longer was used by the settlers who wanted to go west, she said.
Armitage said there was evidence that the trail passed by what is now Haskell Indian Junior College and curved northwest through the KU
The settlers climbed Mount Oreado to avoid the deep ravines that were present in what is now downtown Lawrence, she said.
ing toward what is now Topeka.
Armitage said the settlers climbed the hill near Malott Hall before head-
The tour also included a stop near Lindley Hall, where a marker commemorates the Oregon Trail's passage through campus.
"I never paid attention," she said.
Lynn Marotz said she had lived in Lawrence since 1970 and had never noticed the marker on campus though she used to walk by it every day.
"I never paid attention," she said. Marotz said the tour was educationally valuable for her, and the marker on campus along with the other sites outside of Lawrence.
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