Last Chance Store, Chautauqa & Main Streets, Council Grove, Morris County, KS
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
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Hill, Thomas C
Noffsinger, James P, historian
McCleery, Douglas, photographer
Location
Council Grove, 38.65866, -96.49887
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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