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The West Bottoms was founded as a livestock and meatpacking district in 1871. [2] It was home to the Kansas City Live Stock Exchange, Kansas City Stockyards, and the city's first Union railway depot. [3] The stockyards occupied more than two hundred acres and were surrounded by hotels, offices, shops, and banks for cattle buyers and cowboys. [4]
Quality Hill is a historic neighborhood near downtown Kansas City, Missouri, USA, on a 200-foot-high bluff which overlooks the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers in the West Bottoms below. Located on the west side of downtown, it is bounded by Broadway to the east, I-35 to the west, 7th Street to the north, and 14th Street to the south.
In 1858, Peter Ridenour and Harlow Baker established the Ridenour-Baker Grocery Company in Lawrence, Kansas, but the development of the railroad system and the conjunction of several key railway lines along the Missouri River drew them to the West Bottoms neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri, where they relocated and built their first company building in 1878. [4]
The Edge of Hell in Kansas City West Bottoms district is the nation’s oldest continuously operating haunted attraction. It features a signature 5-story spiral slide and an encounter with the devil.
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The Eaton Fire ignited Tuesday night near a canyon in the sprawling national forest lands north of downtown Los Angeles and had exploded to 14,117 acres by Friday night and was 3%, according to ...
The Kansas City Fire Department first originated with the formation of volunteer bucket brigades as early as 1858. Church bells rung to signal a fire alarm and members would assemble at the scene to help. In 1867, the city abandoned the voluntary bucket brigade for a paid fire department, and Colonel Frank Foster was elected as its first chief. [4]
Some residents fear the controversies surrounding the Western Cass Fire Protection District threaten its ability to fight fires. Inside a small KC-area fire district’s descent into infighting ...