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Last Chance Store, Chautauqa & Main Streets, Council Grove, Morris County, KS

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Last Chance Store, Chautauqa & Main Streets, Council Grove, Morris County, KS

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Summary

Significance: This simple one-story stone structure is typical of frontier architecture and was the last place where supplies could be obtained on the Santa Fe Trail between Council Grove and Santa Fe, a distance of six hundred miles.
Survey number: HABS KS-6
Building/structure dates: 1857 Initial Construction

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Date

1933 - 1970
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Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Hill, Thomas C
Noffsinger, James P, historian
McCleery, Douglas, photographer
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Location

Council Grove38.65866, -96.49887
Google Map of 38.6586643, -96.4988705
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Source

Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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