What's In a Name?
Buildings and Historic Sites
Blackfeather Farm
Located at 183rd Street and Antioch Road in Stilwell, Blackfeather Farm is on the National Register of Historic Places, covering almost 79 acres. For many years before the house was constructed, the land was associated with the local history of the Shawnee Indians in Kansas. The original land patent was awarded to To Wah Pea and her heirs March 13, 1885. This site was part of the tract belonging to the Black Bob band. Joseph and Johnson Blackfeather were some of the heirs, hence the Blackfeather name was associated with this land.
Source: Historic Landmarks in Overland Park. City of Overland Park, 2005. http://www.opkansas.org/_Gov/History/landmarks.cfm
Mahaffie Farmstead and Stagecoach Stop
The Mahaffie home is the only stagecoach stop preserved as a public historic site on the Santa Fe Trail. Built in 1865 by James and Lucinda Mahaffie, the site is listed on both the National and Kansas Registers of Historic Places and is recognized by the National Park Service as an official component of the Santa Fe National Historic Trail.
Source: .Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop. City of Olathe, 2003.
http://www.olatheks.org/Mahaffie/About
Edgerton State Bank
The Edgerton State Bank was built around the turn of the century and has stood as a familiar icon for several generations of Edgerton residents. Ornate stone window frames with rounded tops highlight the elaborate brick architecture. The city purchased the building - which has been vacant and crumbling for about 10 years - in 1998 for $10,000 and have pledged to invest $200,000 in community development block grant monies and $50,000 in pledges and city funds to renovate it into a Johnson County Library branch site.
Source: History of Edgerton. City of Edgerton, 2006.
http://skyways.lib.ks.us/towns/Edgerton/history.html
Graham Rogers House
The Graham Rogers House was built on about 1,000 acres around 1840, and is located at 6741 Mackey, Overland Park. Graham Rogers was a member of the Fish Band of the Shawnee Indians that emigrated in 1828 from Missouri to what is today Wyandotte County. He was educated at the first Methodist mission of Thomas Johnson in what is now Turner. He worked from 1838 to 1845 as a carpenter on the construction of the historic mission that is in Fairway. It is believed that he constructed this house, which was his residence. The house was constructed as a two-story building. It was later covered with clapboard on the outside, but the inside still appears much as it did when sketched for the 1874 county atlas. By 1865, Graham Rogers had become chief of his band and also a successful farmer. He died in 1871, and around that time 800 acres of the farm was sold. There are no other buildings on the property, which now stands in a 1960s era subdivision.
Source: Graham Rogers House. City of Overland Park, 2005. http://www.opkansas.org/_Gov/History/GrahamRogersHouse.cfm
Grange Hall
One of the more visible buildings in the downtown, the community hall, was placed on the Kansas Register of Historical places in early 1999 for its historical and architectural significance to agriculture. The two-story brick structure was built in 1904 as the Grange Hall.
Source:
History of Edgerton. City of Edgerton, 2006.
http://skyways.lib.ks.us/towns/Edgerton/history.html
Chris Fangro home
The Chris Fangro home is the oldest building in Shawnee, located at 5705 Nieman Road. Nieman was a branch of the Santa Fe Trail and the home was used as a Wells Fargo station; today it is part of the Calkins Electric Co.
David Gee Campbell home
Campbell was the founder of Merriam, Kansas in 1860. His residence started in Shawnee and was later moved to its current location at 9503 Johnson Drive.
