{"id":274,"date":"2012-07-25T03:20:49","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T03:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/?page_id=274"},"modified":"2022-08-11T17:37:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T17:37:46","slug":"stop-11-spilman-plaza-s-santa-fe-avenue","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/?page_id=274","title":{"rendered":"Stop #11: Spilman Plaza, S. Santa Fe Avenue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i> <\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Spilman-260x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-265 size-medium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Spilman-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/walksalina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Spilman.jpg 439w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Spilman Plaza &#8211; Kansas Fever<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deserting his engineering studies at the University of Michigan, Alexander Spilman headed for the Kansas Territory. Eager to take part in the border conflicts, Spilman moved to Lawrence to live with his sister Margaret Phillips. Spilman decided to join his brother-in-law, William Phillips, to establish a town \u201cout west\u201d in 1858.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spilman, along with James Muir and Robert Crawford, completed a preliminary survey of Salina marking off streets, blocks, lots, squares and public ground. When completed, the boundaries of Salina were North, South, Front and Ninth Streets. Spilman continued surveying with a team of public surveyors to subdivide an area 48 by 30 miles, including parts of the future counties of Saline, Ottawa, Ellsworth and Lincoln. In addition to surveying, Spilman was a soldier, farmer, probate judge, attorney, register of deeds, Kansas legislator, businessman and mayor of McPherson, Kansas.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" src=\"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Spilman-Plaza.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-673 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Spilman-Plaza.jpg 940w, https:\/\/walksalina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Spilman-Plaza-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/walksalina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Spilman-Plaza-768x644.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spilman Plaza in 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Next stop:<\/b> Proceed south on Santa Fe Avenue to the<a href=\"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/?page_id=379\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"379\"> Masonic Center, 336 S. Santa Fe.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spilman Plaza &#8211; Kansas Fever Deserting his engineering studies at the University of Michigan, Alexander Spilman headed for the Kansas Territory. Eager to take part in the border conflicts, Spilman moved to Lawrence to live with his sister Margaret Phillips. Spilman decided to join his brother-in-law, William Phillips, to establish a town \u201cout west\u201d in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":588,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-274","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":674,"href":"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/274\/revisions\/674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}