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The history of the Kansas City metropolitan area relates to the area around the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers and the modern-day city of Kansas City, Missouri. Before the arrival of European explorers, the area was inhabited at various times by peoples of the Hopewell tradition and later the Mississippian culture , as well as the ...
1928-1932 and 1938-1940 Automobile Legal Association Green Book: large scale maps (not very detailed - only major routes) and major city inset maps; turn-by-turn directions can also be used to find old routings through cities; also contains rough route logs (i.e. cities passed through) for some of the longer routes in all eastern states; 1938 ...
The Indiana University East campus included 225 acres (0.911 km 2) of land, purchased with community donations, on the northern edge of Richmond, Indiana. Of those 225 acres (0.91 km 2), 174 acres (0.70 km 2) are for IU East and 51 acres (0.21 km 2) are for other non-IU East post-secondary educational uses, such as Ivy Tech Community College.
Simeon Armour was a powerful supporter of Kansas City's new Parks and Boulevard System and he held a position on the Park Board from 1892 until his death in 1899. The monumental character of West Armour Boulevard was established by thirteen colonnaded apartment blocks designed by John McKecknie .
Troost Avenue was continuously developed from 1834 into the 1990s. From the 1880s to 1920s, many prominent white Kansas Citians (including ophthalmologist Flavel Tiffany, Governor Thomas Crittenden, banker William T. Kemper, and MEC, S pastor James Porter) resided in mansions along what had been a farm-to-market road.
The first electric streetcar operated in Kansas City on September 6, 1889. [7] By 1908, all but one of Kansas City's streetcar routes had been converted to electricity. [1] When the Kansas City Public Service Company (KCPS) was created in 1925, it inherited over 700 streetcars that had been owned and operated by private companies. [5]
39th Street is a major east–west street in Kansas City, Missouri, running almost 5 miles from State Line Road at the Kansas-Missouri border to Topping Avenue in Kansas City's East Side. It was originally named Rosedale Avenue as it led to the town of Rosedale .
Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad: Norfolk and Western Railway: NW 1964 1998 Norfolk Southern Railway: North Missouri Railroad: WAB: 1851 1871 St. Louis, Kansas City and Northern Railway: North Missouri Central Railroad: Northern Railroad: CB&Q: 1898 1898 Kansas City and Northern Connecting Railroad: Ohio and Mississippi ...