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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 ...
In the 1930s, after decades of overcrowding, the school moved to its current location at Woodland and East 22nd Streets, according to archival research conducted through the Kansas City Public ...
Civella was born to Italian immigrants in Kansas City. He was the younger brother of mobster Carl "Cork" Civella and the uncle of mobster Anthony Civella. Nicholas Civella began his criminal career as a teenager in the Italian "North End" neighborhood of Kansas City. Civella's first arrest was at age 10, after which he dropped out of school.
Hogan supposedly drew inspiration for his popular minstrel songs from the neighborhood and even had his first big hit, “La Pas Ma La,” published in Kansas City. After World War I, Black social ...
In 1926, Black historian Carter G. Woodson set out to designate a week in February for the celebration, education, and commemoration of African American history. A child born that year would be 98 ...
On June 1, 1918, after an extensive fundraiser campaign yielding US$25,000 (equivalent to about $506,000 in 2023), the facility was relocated to an existing building at 1826 Forest Avenue. Having been built in 1903 as St. Joseph's Parochial School, that building was renamed Wheatley-Provident Hospital and repurposed as Kansas City's first ...
No. 11: Unearth the history of Kansas City’s lost Black neighborhood, demolished for city park Belvidere Hollow was a vibrant Black neighborhood in Kansas City, but by 1958 it ceased to exist ...
City workhouse castle (Vine Street workhouse castle, Brant Castle [3]) is a city historical register site located at 2001 Vine Street in Kansas City, Missouri.The castle was constructed by contractors in 1897 for US$25,700 (equivalent to $971,000 in 2024) next to the natural deposit of yellow limestone which had been quarried by inmates of the preceding city workhouse jail across Vine Street.