This Gateway to Kansas
This Gateway to Kansas sign sits pretty innocuously on the side of Minnesota Avenue in downtown Kansas City, KS (Approximately 4th St and Minnesota Avenue, Kansas City, KS). It marks 5 events of historical significance, including:
1804: Lewis and Clark, on their epic exploring trip assaying the new Louisiana Purchase, camped 3 days 4 blocks east.
1809: Louis Bartholet (the first non-Native American settler in the Louisiana Purchase Area) built a cabin 3 blocks south.
1843: The Wyandot Indian Tribe came from Ohio and purchased this land from the Delaware tribe.
1855: First court house and post office in Kansas 3 blocks northeast
1859: Wyandotte Constitutional Convention drafted the Kansas State Constitution 5 blocks northeast.