| Voted by Inngoers
among the
"Top 15 Inns with Best Antiques" (2004) and "Top 15 Most Historic Inns" (2001) in annual
surveys by Arrington's Bed & Breakfast Journal
and Inn Traveler. National Register of Historic
Places.
This 125 year-old,
seven-gable stone country inn, located 15 minutes
southwest of the Kansas capital city of Topeka, is just
over an hour from Kansas City and two hours from Wichita.
The
first part of the Sage Inn was built in 1865 at the
edge of the Kansas
Flint Hills to offer food and lodging to travelers on
the Southwest Trail, which joined the Oregon Trail at
Topeka, KS and the Santa Fe Trail at Council Grove,
KS. Behind the Inn was one of only two fords over Mission
Creek, (then called American Chief Creek for the Kanza
Indian Chief's village nearby).
Beyond the inn were miles of rolling Flint Hills and
Kansas prairie.
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- Kansas History Museum
In 1878, when the Inn was expanded to the size it is today,
it included a livery, corral for horses,
and blacksmith shop. The stagecoach carried
freight, mail and passengers to other destinations.
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