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unusual facts about Conestoga wagon



Martha Ellen Young Truman

Martha Ellen Young was born in Jackson County, Missouri, on November 25, 1852, to Solomon Young, a successful farmer who also had a business running Conestoga wagon trains along the Overland Trail, and his wife Harriet Louisa Gregg.


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Elisha Southwick

He produced Conestoga Wagon wheels, which the pioneers used to travel westward in during the late 1800s.

Elisha Southwick House

David L. Southwick was a blacksmith who lived in the house in the late 1800s and built Conestoga wagon wheels.