SFGT: DAR West of Council Grove Traditional Geocache
SFGT: DAR West of Council Grove
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This cache is part of the larger Santa Fe Trail GeoTour: santafetrail.org/geocaching
Located on north side of Highway 56, west of Council Grove, at a pull-out with a Daughters of the American Revolution Santa Fe Trail Marker. Parking is all-weather rock surface. A short walk along the fence row to the cache.
Be sure to visit www.santafetrail.org/geocaching to learn about the PASSPORT ACTIVITY to accompany this Geo Tour. Containers on the Santa Fe National Historic Trail Geo Tour are military ammunition canisters, or Brochure-Holder boxes, with an identifying Santa Fe Trail Association yellow sticker on the top of the box, under the handle and the dark green geocaching.com ID is on the side of the boxes with the information that provides coordinates, who set the cache and who to contact for information. Each cache contains a logbook to sign, a variety of items that provide information about the Santa Fe Trail as well as swag items. If you are participating in the Passport activity, the code word is located on the inside of the box, on the top of the lid and is clearly identified as Code Word. We ask that all cachers please respect all property at the sites where our caches are set.
About the D.A.R. Markers:
The marking of the old Santa Fe Trail was first suggested to the Daughters at the State conference in Ottawa in 1902 by Fannie Geiger Thompson (Mrs. A. H.), Kansas State Regent. By the time they had the next conference, the hand of death took Mrs. Thompson to a Heavenly home. Daughters of Kansas regarded the marking of the trail as a sacred legacy left by Mrs. Thompson, and voted to go to work at once to under take completion of her dream. It proved to be quite an undertaking as the marking of the trail involved the placement of ninety-six granite stones across the 500 mile route in Kansas. (Note: It is important to remember that this project was done before the use of automobiles, trucks, power tools, cell phones and modern mapping techniques. What an amazing project!)
The Old Santa Fe Trail became a definite way across the states of Missouri, Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico. The Kansas Daughters were the first to mark the old Trail and the Daughters of Missouri, Colorado, and New Mexico followed their example. The story of marking the trail is told in a book called "The story of the Marking of the Santa Fe Trail" published in 1913 and written by Mrs. T.A. Cordry, State Historian of Kansas Daughters of the American Revolution. It is readily available at libraries and through internet sales of books.
Near this particular DAR marker, swales can be seen to the north, running through a pasture. There are also swales located to the southwest of this marker -- those swales are marked with local chapter signage. Follow the signs on the highway to view them.
Additional Hints
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