Plain's Mountain Truck & Eqiupment
212 W 4thSharon Springs KS 67758
Ph: 785-852-4561
Ph: 785-852-4861
Fax: 785-852-5304
pmtess@sunflowertelco.com
Mt. Sunflower was designated as Kansas highest point in 1961. A United States Geological Survey officially plotted the elevation at 4039 feet. True mountains are called such because of a 2000 foot difference in altitude in a 10-20
Sharon Springs, KS Natural AttractionsOn the grounds of the Fort Wallace Museum visitors will find the original Pond Creek Stage Station, built in 1865 as a "home station"
Sharon Springs, KS MuseumsThe historic Butterfield Trail is a popular trail that people still use for trail rides today. The Butterfield Overland Dispatch Trail surveyed in 1865 was originally used in 1859 by gold seekers as the fastest way to get to the Colorado mines.
Sharon Springs, KS Trail RidesThe Old Maid's Pool, an ancient sinkhole long thought to be bottomless, is 125 yards in diameter apparently with neither inlet nor outlet. Its unfailing fresh water supply is believed to come from the underflow of the river nearby.
Sharon Springs, KS Natural AttractionsAll that remains of the original Fort Wallace now is the old post cemetery, enclosed by stone walls within the Wallace Township cemetery. In December of 1885, the U.S. Government extricated the bodies of 88 soldiers with headstones marked between 1867-1879
Sharon Springs, KS CemeteriesWeather predictions and forecast by the latest Doppler System. One of only five in Kansas and the Tops in the United Sates. ...
This site features a memorial to the Cheyenne Indian survivors of the Sand Creek Massacre on November 29, 1864. Created by a ...
Begun in 1892, by J.R. Stevens at the inspiration of his wife, "Aunt" Jennie Stevens that the chapel came into existence. Unc...