Antioch Park: a continuous green place

Johnson County Park and Recreation District (JCPRD) 44-Acre Antioch Park has a long and rich environmental and utility history. Unlike many parts of Johnson County, the land of the Antioch Park is never widely developed or cultivated. What you see around you seems as much as 200 years ago. A new history in the parks is installed outside the building, shares the history of the region. This month’s blog writer counts back some land history.

Native lands

For centuries, the joint ancestral hunting area of ​​Kansan and Osage tribes in the area, which is now Antioch Park. In the 1820s, the Federal Government Kanza and Osage managed to reservations in another place in Kansas now. The government then removed Shawnee from the father’s areas in the Ohio Tea Valley and placed them in a reservation covering modern Johnson County until 1854. The Congress then formed the Kansas area and took the Shawnee again. The influence of local peoples and cultures remains in the names of the streets, parks and geographical properties in the district today.

A shawnee Land Grant Farm

44 hkrates of Antioch Park once belonged to the Federal Land Grant for 200 people Kah chequaOutstanding member of Shawnee Society. Despite its reputation, there are several written notes about Kah Che Qua. In 1857, Shawnee Indian census notes indicate widow and survival with his five children. The diary of the local missionary, one of Kah Che Qua’s children, Anna attended the Quaker mission School located just north of the 63rd street. In the convention of 1866, Kah Che Qua’s house in today’s Antioch Park Kah Che Qua said that the corn, oats and potatoes were growing. 770 Shavernee, which is 770 shaurnee, which is launched in Oklahoma in the early 1870s. Kah Che Qua died before 1873.

Oak Park Exchange Farm

Kah Che Qua’s land neighbor, Shawnee heads Rogam Rogers, was part of the late 1860s. Rogers sold 800 hectares in 1868 to the land area, including Henry Coppock, including Antioch Park. Coppock set up Oak Park FarmA farm in a stock that brings beef cattle and pigs. Most of the soil was located between the Antioch Road and Metcalf Avenue between the east-west, 63 and 71st streets north-south. Coppock also closed a large garden, but left forested with most of the lands 1874 Atlas Map Johnson County, Kansas. Coppock sold its wide owners in 1880 with plans to relocate to Montana, but in the end of Johnson County, in today’s Prairie village of Johnson County, in the field of 1000 hectares.

A gentleman’s farm and the rural retraction

George Milburn took 800 hectares of Coppock with the intention of creating a gentleman’s farm – Relaxation property for the wealthy of the city of Kansas. Although Milburn wants fresh air for failure, he died in 1883 only three years later. Milburnun’s wife and their children were left on the property for about four decades. The surname was later appealed to the suburban neighborhood in the area and a country club in the area.

A number of other prominent residents who want to withdraw in the villages, after Milburn, the parts were taken. GRACE Vernon, who was established in the forces, was built in 1923 and built in 1923 “Vernon’s Nook,” English is a home designed as a thanded cottage, as well as other guest houses and horses. In 1946, Laththrop G. and Geraldine Backstrom received 44 hectares of fishing ponds and forested soils, throwing their children horses. Lathrop Backstrom was one of the first members of the new park board of the district. In 1956, the Shane Mission Park District, JCPRD’s predecessor, who could turn into the same district park, sold to Shawnee Mission Park.

First jcprd park

As the II World War II increased, as the suburban developments increased, the park was a growing priority. In 1953, a county was a wide voting to a special tax area and came together in 1955 to create a master plan of the poachee Mission Park board. The land for the Antiox Park was taken next year. John Barkley, a resident of the mission, served as the leadership of the first parking district and the development of Antios Park.

The popularity of Antiox Park is due to special features today. Over the years, World War II Fighter aircraft and “Dodge Town” fascinated. In 1974 Vietnam Veterans Memorial Plaza (The first Vietnamese Memorial of the Kansas City Metro) was funded here completely private donations. Helen Cuddy Garden and Memory Arboretum, as well as the beautiful ponds of the park, walking shelters and playground at this favorite park attraction. Antioch Park, one of the smallest parks in JCPRD, is one of the oldest and most visited features, will be protected for many future generations guaranteed by green space.

Learn more!

You can learn more by visiting the Antioch Park to view the conknown interpretation marker there. Marker is part of JCPRD History in Parks (HIP) marker seriesJohnson County Museum, a part of the JCPRD culture division between parks and golf courses. Verhaghe Park, Big Bull Creek Park, Meadowbrook Park, Meadowbrook Park, Bunkley Park in Bunkley Park, similar markers are already posted in Shawnee Mission Park. To learn more about Johnson County history, visit the Johnson County Museum on 8788 Metcalf Avenue in Overland Park – Monday – from 9:30 pm to 4:30 pm. Plan your visit to jcprd.com/museum.