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National Frontier Trails Center Independence, Missouri Location:    318 W. Pacific Independence, MO 64050 Phone: 816-325-7575 Fax: 816-325-7579 This web page has had 3708 unique visitors. National Frontier Trails Center Website fdesk@indepmo.org Description: The Trails Center presents the history of the Santa Fe, California and Oregon Trails and the personal trials and adventures of the pioneers who opened the West. An award-winning film takes visitors from Independence to Oregon. Interpretive exhibits and artifacts. Merrill J. Mattes Research Library is recognized as the largest collection of books, documents and manuscripts on the Westward Expansion. The National Frontier Trails Center was built by the State of Missouri's Department of Natural Resources in 1990. The surviving portion of the Waggoner-Gates Mill building was incorporated into the design. The mill's laboratory was renovated as well, and serves as the national headquarters of the Oregon-California Trails Association. During the trails period, thousands of wagons rolled down the hill from the Courthouse Square and passed over the property now known as the National Frontier Trails Center. The large, free public spring offered emigrants a chance to water their livestock and wash with its fresh water.