Santa Fe Trail Marker Penn Valley Park

The famed journey of Captain William Bicknell (Santa Fe, N.M.’s founder) is marked in various places throughout the states he traveled, one being right here in Kansas City’s Penn Valley Park. The project began with the Senator Thomas Benton, intending to stake the markers of the Santa Fe Trail. It was in 1905 that the mission made it to Kansas City, and the Santa Fe Trail’s path noted at 30th and Broadway. The plaque was not original to Penn Valley Park, but was relocated to the very spot upon which now towers the Federal Reserve Bank building. The proud marker of such history was uninstalled in 2006.