The Arrow Rock Ferry Landing had significance by 1821, when Santa Fe bound trading caravans departing from Franklin began crossing at the ferry.
It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 2013.
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The site can be visited. A trail from the site goes up onto private property however.][(try )]
Also listed on the National Register are other sites associated with the historic Santa Fe Trail
The Santa Fe Trail was a 19th-century route through central North America that connected Franklin, Missouri, with Santa Fe, New Mexico. Pioneered in 1821 by William Becknell, who departed from the Boonslick region along the Missouri River, th ...
.
References
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri
National Register of Historic Places in Saline County, Missouri
Santa Fe Trail
Ferry terminals on the National Register of Historic Places
Crossings of the Missouri River
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