Talk:Monticello Township, Johnson County, Kansas
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[edit] KCAHTA "California Road" Markers (NW Johnson County)
During Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area skirmishes between Kansas and Missouri raiders, the jumping off points for emigrant wagon trains shifted north from Gardner, Kansas. They followed the Kaw River ridges westward from the Shawnee Methodist Mission which was the same route John Fremont used from Westport Landing to the Wakarusa Valley south of Lawrence, Kansas.
The Kansas City Area Historic Trails Association (KCAHTA) carefully marked this National Historic Trail branch as the "California Road."
- geoWIZard-Passports 09:58, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Oregon Trail: "California Road" KCAHTA Signage GPSurvey
The Modern Signs of Our Time Unique to the metropolitan area, brown metal signs were placed by the Kansas City Area Historic Trails Association (KCAHTA) throughout the county. In addition to the Santa Fe and Oregon-California Trails, these signs also document the California Road (also known as the Westport to Lawrence Road) and the Fort Leavenworth Military Road. Over 350 signs were placed on local roadways at (Kansas Territory land survey section lines) where the trails crossed.
- Pubic Domain Orthoview Map: Created by City of Shawnee (COS) GIS Crew using Garmin GPS field survey waypoints
- geoWIZard-Passports 10:13, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Kaw Valley Heritage "River Routes"
- During pre-Civil War Bleeding Kansas skirmishes (1854-1865), emigrants used the California Road branch of the Oregon Trail and California Trail to reach Lawrence, Kansas from the Missouri River landing at Westport, Kansas City.
- The Monticello Campground and historic trails crossing were about 12-14 miles west of Thomas Johnson's Shawnee Methodist Mission.
- geoWIZard-Passports 10:08, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
