![]() ![]() ![]() While our trails have changed in look and sometimes use, we continue to walk in the same paths as those before us – finding time to walk or bike along Sand Creek and seeing unlimited potential just as the founders once did. Today, we see the revitalization of the rail lines through expanded passenger rail and continued freight lines, keeping trains at the heart of our community. The settlement was incorporated as a city on February 22, 1872. They would call the town Newton, after the city in Massachusetts where many Santa Fe stockholders lived. The original town was platted at the end of August 1871, being bordered by 12 th Street to the north, 5 th Street to the south, Ash to the west and Pine to the east. The first Santa Fe Depot was constructed in 1871, and the first train stopped here July 17, 1871. As they stopped at the banks of Sand Creek for lunch, they determined it was to be the spot. Lakin, went out to find a spot to terminate the Chisholm Trail. On an August morning in 1870, several men, including Judge RWP Muse and railroad representative D.L. Holiday, broke ground on a new railroad to run along the Santa Fe Trail - the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. Jesse Chisholm’s name would be forever etched in history for scouting perhaps the most famous of the cattle trails, which would carry 5 million longhorns from Texas to Kansas. William Becknell would establish the Santa Fe Trail in 1821, which at 780 miles was one of the longest commercial routes in the United States. Some of the earliest Western accounts of the people include notes from the Spanish explorer Coronado documenting grass house villages that he would refer to as “the Quivira.” The trails through this land would be documented as a large pre-colonial settlement of Indigenous people that had been forced out of Kansas by the time the cattle drives would begin. Trails to Rails: Newton Past, Present and Futureįormed at the juncture of Native American trails and solidified through the railroad, Newton has a proud history as a thriving center of transportation. ![]()
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