The Madonna of the Trail project began in 1909 when a group of Missouri women decided that the Santa Fe Trail should be marked.
The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) joined this group in 1911, when the Missouri chapter appointed an Old Trails Commission to establish a national memorial highway across the continent.
In 1912 the National Old Trails Road Association was established to assist the NSDAR in marking trails and to encourage construction of a national memorial highway from coast to coast. World War I interrupted activities, which resumed in 1921. In 1924 Judge Harry S. Truman, of Independence, Missouri, became president of the association.
Link: Daughters of the American Revolution dar.org
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