Publication: Tribune Content Agency LLC
Author: Paul Weiderman
Date of Publication: 2020
PDF File: ProQuestDocuments-2023-06-08-5.pdf
Description
On a busy Santa Fe street, cars roll by day and night and many drivers never notice a small memorial to America’s oldest trail of westward expansion. The concrete stela, just 41 inches tall, rests a little over 1,000 yards south of the Santa Fe Plaza — the western terminus of the 950-mile-long Santa Fe Trail. The monument’s originator, Harry Howard Dorman, chose Independence Day in 1910 to plant the little monument at the corner of Buena Vista Street and College Street (now named Old Santa Fe Trail), according to research by architectural historian John W. Murphey.