On August 13, city council members, leaders from Kansas City Parks & Rec, local historians, Trailside Center volunteers and members of the community gathered along the Blue River at Minor Park to unveil and celebrate four new historical panels.
The installation is the result of a community partnership and common dream to extend the series of interpretive panels that dot the Indian Creek Trail on the Kansas side into Missouri.
Park visitors can now learn about the significance of the adjacent Sante Fe Trail as a trade and migration route, the native people original to the area including the Kickapoo and Osage tribes, and the role of Watts Mill as a true last chance to grind grain before wagon trains headed west…