Lone Elm Campground Swale Olathe, Kansas
National Register of Historic Places Data
Lone Elm Campground Swale has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places with the following information, which has been imported from the National Register database and/or the Nomination Form . Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- National Register ID
- 14000121
- Date Listed
- April 6, 2014
- Name
- Lone Elm Campground Swale
- Other Names
- Round Grove; 14JO367; KHRI # 091-0000-00006
- Part of
- Santa Fe Trail MPS (Multiple Property Submission)
- Address
- 21151 W. 167th St.
- City/Town
- Olathe
- County
- Johnson
- State
- Kansas
- Category
- site
- Level of Sig.
- national
- Areas of Sig.
- COMMERCE; TRANSPORTATION; EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT; SOCIAL HISTORY
Description
Text courtesy of the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Parks Service. Minor transcription errors or changes in formatting may have occurred; please see the Nomination Form PDF for official text. Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.
The Lone Elm Campground Swale is associated with three great overland trails-the Santa Fe, the Oregon, and the California trails-as these three routes shared part of the same corridor in eastern Kansas. The nominated property is nationally significant as part of the Historic Resources of the Santa Fe Trail revised multiple property nomination under Criterion A for its association with transportation and commerce along the Santa Fe Trail and in the area of social history for its commemoration by the DAR. Further, the swale is significant under Criterion D for its potential to yield information about commerce, migration, and wagon transportation in eastern Kansas. This swale is also nationally significant under Criteria A & D for its association with transportation and exploration/settlement along the Oregon and California trails. The site, which is now part of a public park, retains a good degree of integrity in terms of location, feeling, and association required for registration. The initial period of significance begins in ca. 1823 when the earliest known group headed for Santa Fe passed through this site and ends in ca. 1861 with the beginning of the Civil War, which ended long-distance trail traffic from Independence. This site's significance is also tied to 1906 when the DAR marker was erected. The nominated site materially reflects important historic events associated with Oregon and California trails, as well as the Santa Fe Trail historic contexts International Trade on the Mexican Road, 1821-1846; The Mexican-American War and the Santa Fe Trail, 1846-1848; Expanding National Trade on the Santa Fe Trail, 1848-1861; The Effects of the Civil War on the Santa Fe Trail, 1861-1865; The Santa Fe Trail and the Railroad, 1865-1880; and The Commemoration and Reuse of the Santa Fe Trail, 1880-1987, as well as the Santa Fe Trail in Kansas.
