BOD

Historical marker location:

Gove City, Kansas

( Marker is on County Road 16, 2.1 miles north of County Road E, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1963

1865. Butterfield Overland Despatch.

The first successful airplane flight west of the Mississippi River took place in Kansas in 1910, when Clyde Cessna flew his plane for the first time in Wichita.