Mahaffie Farmstead

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Credit: Jack Tinnel

The Mahaffie Farmstead in Johnson County is the only known stagecoach stop along the Santa Fe National Historic Trail that is open to the public. Preservation of these rolling pastures and two small lakes close to the center of Olathe protected the historic farmstead from encroaching commercial development.

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The stone farmhouse built by James B. and Lucinda Mahaffie in 1865 is one of the few stagecoach stops left on the Santa Fe Trail, and the only one preserved as a public historic site. Along with the farmhouse, the stone ice house (also built in 1865) and the original timber-frame barn (probably the oldest building on the site and built around 1860) are all listed on the on the National and Kansas Registers of Historic Places. The site is also designated as an official component of the Santa Fe National Historic Trail by the National Park Service.

Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop and Farm Historic Site
1200 Kansas City Road
Olathe, KS 66061
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