Baldwin in Kansas - StoppingPoints.com

Great Bend
Weather:


	Baldwin
Kansas State Historical Marker
Douglas County
	US-56, Douglas County Roadside turnout, .5 miles east of Baldwin City , KS, USA

	Here, and for the next 300 miles west, Highway 56 roughly follows the old Santa Fe Trail, and frequently crosses it. White settlement began in this area in 1854, the year Kansas became a territory, and in 1855 the town of Palmyra was founded. When Baker University was established on the outskirts in 1858 a new town sprang up.