Kansas is rich in archaeological remains from the 19th century westward migration.
The Gateway Research Committee has been working with Ron Koehler, editor of the “Hiawatha Daily World” newspaper, on a project designed to elicit information on the St. Joe Road from the northeast Kansas Public. Ron wrote an article about the Read More …
The Kansas State Historical Society (KSHS) as contracted with Jim Feagins to analyze artifacts in the Unmarked Burial Sites (UBS) collections before their probable repatriation. The topic of this talk is the study of one of the UBS collections.
Peterson decided to excavate the eastern half of this orifice as one 2018 PA activity. In a day and a half, diggers completed down to 50 centimeters. Peterson suspects the feature may have been a cistern because the sides were Read More …
The Kansas Historical Society (KSHA) and the Kansas Anthropological Association (KAA) returned to Council Grove for the KAA Fall Fling to see if two unanswered questions of the June Kansas Archeology Training Program (KATP) could be determined.
Lone Elm Campground was a busy campground on the Independence route of the Santa Fe-Oregon-California trails from about 1821 to 1870.
Several attempts have been made in the past by trail groups to verify the location of the Captain’s Creek Crossing of the Oregon-California Trail, east of Douglas County Line.
During the first two weeks of June, the Kansas Archaeology Training Program (KATP) excavated three depressions at the site of Ft. Ellsworth, an Army post situated at the junction of the Ft. Riley-Ft. Larned Road and the Smoky Hill Trail Read More …
Sixteen people turned out on Saturday morning, November 4th, in answer to Trails Head Chapter President Bill Bullard’s invitation to our first chapter expedition. Trails Head members met in the Wilderness Park section of northwest Johnson County, Kansas.
At the request of Fort Riley, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center Of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections (MCX), St. Louis District conducted a survey and assessment of archaeological materials and associated documentation generated Read More …
Six years before the American Civil War, in 1855, William Allison and Francis Boothe established a trading post along the imposing Arkansas River. This crossing came to be known as Walnut Creek Crossing, an important milestone on the Santa Fe Read More …