Historical Marker
A Look Back in Time
Historical marker location:
32505 West 183rd Street, Gardner, Kansas
( Marker can be reached from the intersection of U.S. 56 and West 183rd Street, on the right when traveling west.)
The Oregon and California trails were pathways for the greatest mass migration in American history.
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.