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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Jackson County, Missouri
Independence and Kansas City are both the county seat for Jackson County
Adjacent to Jackson County, Missouri
Cass County(40) ► Clay County(78) ► Johnson County(19) ► Lafayette County(56) ► Ray County(13) ► Johnson County, Kansas(105) ► Wyandotte County, Kansas(104) ►
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The Savoy Hotel was constructed between 1890 and 1906 during a building boom which created some of the most architecturally significant buildings in the central business district. The first major hotel enroute from the old Union depot, it served as . . . — — Map (db m19831) HM
12 East Armour Boulevard was the original headquarters of Interstate Bakeries Corporation (IBC), now Hostess Brands, Inc. Hostess Brands owns Hostess and Dolly Madison snack cakes and Wonder, Nature's Pride and Butternut breads. — — Map (db m198770) HM
Killed at Exermont France
September twenty ninth MCMXVIII
A kindly just and beloved officer
wise in counsel
resolute in action
courageous unto death
Amiens Vosges St. Mihiel
Meuse Argonne
Killed at Exermont France . . . — — Map (db m64124) WM
On September 18, 1971, Roanoke Road was designated as a historic landmark by the Board of Parks and Recreation Commissioners and renamed Roanoke Boulevard. Originally constructed in 1915 the boulevard exists as one of the few remaining brick roads . . . — — Map (db m86253) HM
In 1910, the Southland Hotel, located at 3517 Main Street, advertised itself as one of the "most complete and up to date suburban hotels in the west." — — Map (db m198771) HM
The sculptures of the J.C. Nichols Memorial Fountain were originally created by French sculptor Henri Leon Greber in 1910 for a fountain in the formal garden at Harbor Hill, the Long Island, New York estate of Clarence and Katherine . . . — — Map (db m88233) HM
J. C. Nichols was one of those rare individuals, a dreamer with a capacity for making his dreams come true. He dreamed more over in terms of great practical benefit to his city, few men can have so variously and profoundly influenced the . . . — — Map (db m88238) HM
Amache Ochinee Prowers (ca. 1846-1905) was born near Bent's Fort, the daughter of a Cheyenne chief named Ochinee. In 1861, as a teenage girl, she married John Prowers, a trader with Bent, St. Vrain & Co. For a time, Amache and her husband lived in . . . — — Map (db m199381) HM
At about 1:00 P.M., October 23, 1864 Confederate Gen. Shelby was withdrawing slowly from his position near the Wornall House. He had been ordered to pull back by Gen. Price because of the collapse of Marmaduke's Confederate line at Byram's Ford. . . . — — Map (db m30294) HM
(Front):
In memory of our Confederate Dead
(Reverse):
To the brave soldiers who fell in
the Battle of Westport October 23, 1864.
Erected by
Kansas City Chapter 149 U.D.C.
to the memory of
Seventy Five . . . — — Map (db m26593) WM
front left panel
Leroy Robert
(picture of Satchel)
July 7, 1906
June 8, 1982
front right panel
Lahoma Jean
(picture of Lahoma)
April 7, 1922
Sept. . . . — — Map (db m26607) HM
On Oct. 23, 1864, Confederate Gen. Shelby being forced back from Westport by Gen. Curtis and flanked on the east by Gen. Pleasonton formed a defensive line here behind stone fences running east and west to the state line. Jackman's Brigade of . . . — — Map (db m26692) HM
William Rockhill Nelson, visionary force in the development of Kansas City, was born March 7, 1841, in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
In September 1880 he arrived in Kansas City with business partner, Samuel Morss, and they launched the newspaper that . . . — — Map (db m144140) HM
This building was erected in 1914 and has continuously been the home of the Kansas City Athenaeum, one of the oldest and largest federated women's clubs in Missouri. Familiar names among the 71 chapter members were: Mary Harmon Weeks, founder of . . . — — Map (db m87317) HM
Dr. Alice Berry Graham
Born: Warren, Pennsylvania 1850
Died: Kansas City, Missouri 1913
Dr. Katharine Berry Richardson
Born: Flat Rock, Kentucky 1860
Died: Kansas City, Missouri 1933
This bridge honors the lives and . . . — — Map (db m63919) HM
Designed by David A. Miles, the Gladstone Boulevard Bridge was erected by the Wrought Iron Bridge Company in 1897 under the direction of Joseph W. Hoover for $16,000.
A major rehabilitation and restoration project was completed in 2003, which . . . — — Map (db m63920) HM
Independence Avenue was given its name because it extended from the central business district of Kansas City to Independence. In 1893, the Board of Park Commissioners selected a portion of Independence Avenue to become the first boulevard in the . . . — — Map (db m63699) HM
Named for Nathan Scarritt D.D. (1821-1890), whose first home on this site was a log cabin of his own building.
Dr. Scarritt, a leading citizen in Kansas City and the founder of Melrose Methodist Church, was instrumental in the establishment . . . — — Map (db m63921) HM
By late 1890's, Kansas City began its third major boom and industry expanded into residential neighborhoods. To escape the encroaching commercial activity, parks and boulevards were built east of downtown, near the old Scarritt homestead. This new . . . — — Map (db m63698) HM
The shared corridor of three major trails-the Santa Fe, Oregon, and California-once passed this way. Here on Hart Grove Creek, trail travelers stopped for water, wood, and a night's rest. Within a day's walk to the west was the Missouri state . . . — — Map (db m245098) HM
In 1864, the New Santa Fe Rd. joined the Harrisonville Rd. (now Grandview Rd.) here and went south across I-435 then to the southwest. McNeil's Union Brigade had been ordered by Gen. Pleasonton to be here by daylight on October 23, 1864 and block . . . — — Map (db m20576) HM
Getting an education on the edge of the western Missouri frontier could be difficult. In the early 1800s, farm families lived miles apart and relied on private primary schools. Sometimes people hired tutors or governesses to teach their children. . . . — — Map (db m245099) HM
There was once a town here. Holmes Park, with its school, railroad line, houses, and factories, exemplified the western Missouri settlement transition from wagon trails to farming to railroads to communities. At this place, the westward-expanding . . . — — Map (db m245100) HM
(Front of Marker):
Price's Raid
Confederate General Sterling Price brought three mounted divisions from Arkansas into Missouri, September 19, 1864. Fighting several small battles he marched slowly north toward St. Louis, then struck . . . — — Map (db m20868) HM
Majors, “the great freighter,” was born in Kentucky. He entered the freighting business in 1848. He became managing partner of Russell, Majors and Waddell in 1854 with offices in Westport. The wagon trains moved enormous tonnage on the . . . — — Map (db m87330) HM
Built in 1855 by John and Henrietta Harris this Greek revival style all brick house was located on a slightly five acre tract on the ridge just east of Westport, MO. This site was on the southwest corner of Westport Rd. (Santa Fe Trail) and Main . . . — — Map (db m44411) HM
Jim Bridger was one of the most famous of the mountain men. He was an Indian fighter fur trapper and trader, guide to the Far West, U.S. Army Scout and explorer. He discovered the South Pass through the Rockies in 1827, the Great Salt Lake in 1834, . . . — — Map (db m87334) HM
Historians have called McCoy “the father of Kansas City”. In 1833 he platted a town around the trading post he built on lot No. 1 (northeast corner of Westport Road and Pennsylvania). Calling it “West Port,” Missouri, he . . . — — Map (db m87333) HM
Water, like time, has the power to cleanse and heal. This memorial fountain stands as a symbol of that healing, from the devastating division caused by the Vietnam War. The fountain's pools represent the country's growing involvement in the war, . . . — — Map (db m88226) WM
Near this point John McCoy built a log trading post in 1833 which launched the settlement of Westport, with the town becoming the westernmost point of American civilization. From Westport, the Santa Fe, California, and Oregon Trails reached out as . . . — — Map (db m21064) HM
(Main Marker)
Originally used as an outfitting store for wagon trains, this building was completed in 1850 by Indian traders George and William Ewing and was sold in 1854 to Albert Gallatin Boone for $7,000. Boone operated the store . . . — — Map (db m20921) HM
The Santa Fe Trail extended nearly 1,000 miles overall from the Missouri River ports Southwest to Taos and Santa Fe. The first exploration and trading on the direct overland trail was conducted by the colonial French. The 1680 pueblo revolt in New . . . — — Map (db m86227) HM
This map gives a geographic picture of the three trails during the opening of the west from 1845 to 1860. The years note when an area became a territory or was admitted as a state.
The Santa Fe Trail, 770 miles, blazed by William Bicknell in . . . — — Map (db m87320) HM
Founded in 1833 by John C. McCoy as a trading post on the wagon road between Independence and the Indian Territory. To supply goods to McCoys store from steamboats on the Missouri River, Westport Landing was established in 1834 at First & Grand, . . . — — Map (db m87329) HM
Thousands of wagon wheels, animal hooves, and human feet once passed this way – creating the deep depression in front of you. The swale, now worn by erosion, is grassed-over evidence of three trails once connecting frontier Missouri to . . . — — Map (db m87293) HM
Originally known as Ottawa, 12th Street spanned from the West Bottoms, nestled in the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers, to the eastern suburbs, dotted by small bungalows. At first a colorless retail strip, 12th Street blossomed into an . . . — — Map (db m200146) HM
During the early-1970s, 12th and Vine fell victim to Urban Renewal. Kansas City's Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority leveled most of the neighborhood surrounding 12th and Vine, as part of a city-wide rebuilding effort. In 1977, the Authority . . . — — Map (db m198767) HM
Independence Avenue was given its name because it extended from the central business district of Kansas City to Independence. In 1893, the Board of Park Commissioners selected a portion of Independence Avenue to become the first boulevard in the . . . — — Map (db m63906) HM
This statue of Neptune with his trident and three horses, famous in Greek mythology, was cast of lead in 1911 by the Bromsgrove Guild, Ltd., of Worchestershire, England for the Pennsylvania estate of the late Alba B. Johnson, then the president . . . — — Map (db m88240) HM
Dedicated in 1967
in recognition of our sister city
Seville, Spain
—————————
Seville Fountain
Cleaves-Bessmer-Marietti, Inc.
adopted this fountain for restoration
through the . . . — — Map (db m88239) HM
This bronze is one of three
replicas of the famous
Wild Boar of Florence
at the entrance of the Straw Market in that historical Italian city. The original was carved in marble by the Greeks before the time of Christ. Later the Romans made . . . — — Map (db m88241) HM
Beginning around 1799, French-speaking traders and farmers moved up-river from the French settlements in the Illinois country, around Ft. Chartres, St. Louis, Kaskaskia and St. Genevieve and from Three Rivers in Canada, and settled at Randolph . . . — — Map (db m86212) HM
front of marker in English
The presence of the Catholic Church was established at an early date in the Kansas City area. Sacerdotal artifacts were among the earliest booty captured by the Comanches in the 1690's, apparently from French . . . — — Map (db m86217) HM
(front of marker in English)
Starting about 1680, the pressure of French traders moving up the Missouri from the Illinois country coincided with the commercial void created by the Pueblo Indian revolt in New Mexico. Soon, Frenchmen were . . . — — Map (db m86210) HM
West Plaque
James Pendergast
Born January 17, 1856
Alderman of First Ward,
1892 — 1911
Died November 10, 1911
This monument is erected by general contributions as a tribute to the rugged character and splended . . . — — Map (db m86131) HM
On September 15, 1806, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark returning from the Pacific, stood on this point and recorded in their journal that this was a commanding situation for a fort and that from the top of the hill you have a perfect command of . . . — — Map (db m86117) HM
“we Set out early Passed the mouth of Blue water river [and later] a bad Sand bar, where our two rope twice . Came to and Camped in the Point above the Kansas River. I observed a great number of Parrot queets this evening ” . . . — — Map (db m86206) HM
Lynching in America
Thousands of Black people were the victims of racial terror lynching in the United States between 1877 and 1950. The lynching of African Americans during this era was a form of racial terrorism intended to intimidate Black . . . — — Map (db m198772) HM
Father Donnelly came to Jackson County in 1845 to serve zealously for thirty five years as a frontier pastor at St. Mary's Church, Independence and Immaculate Conception Church, Kansas City. On this site of the first church property purchased in . . . — — Map (db m86219) HM
Marker Front:
The French-speaking community made a significant contribution to the ultimate success of the epochal Lewis & Clark expedition. The St. Louis Chouteau brothers, fur traders Auguste and Pierre, lodged the two captains in their . . . — — Map (db m86207) HM
English Side
Kansas City in the very early 1800s was an exclusively French-speaking community and its religious (and much of its social) life centered around its little log Catholic Church erected on a plot of ground near present 11th . . . — — Map (db m86273) HM
From the late 1830s and into the 1860s, thousands of traders, emigrants, and gold prospectors passed this way. After crossing the Big Blue River, covered wagons struggled up this hill due to the mud left behind from torrential spring downpours. Over . . . — — Map (db m199357) HM
When Kansas City Mayor Milton Payne took office in 1855 he face an immediate and formidable task: to make his city accessible by cutting streets south from the Missouri River through the looming bluffs along the riverbank.
He authorized almost . . . — — Map (db m87455) HM
From 1857 to the present, town activities have revolved around the "City Market", an integral site for commerce, political rallies, medicine shows, circuses, balloon ascensions, and other public "entertainments" without limits. Its origin began . . . — — Map (db m58410) HM
The town was only a spark in 1834 when entrepreneur and tradesman John Calvin McCoy cut a primitive path from this store to a prominent rock ledge on the river – a perfect landing for riverboats. The steamboat John Hancock, laden with . . . — — Map (db m87450) HM
General Orders No. 11:
The Revenge of Depopulation
The building in front of you (401 Delaware Street) opened for business in the spring of 1860 as the Pacific House Hotel, one of Kansas City's most up-to-date hotels. During the war years, . . . — — Map (db m54013) HM
The stone wall that still exists today against the bluff between Delaware and Wyandotte Streets is the remains of the once-famous Gilliss House Hotel. Built around 1850, the lively riverfront hotel went by various names including the Union, . . . — — Map (db m87458) HM
It was July 3rd, 1869. A crowd of 40,000 elbowed their way onto the banks of the Missouri to celebrate the dedication of a politically empowering marvel – the Hannibal Bridge, the first railroad bridge across the Missouri River. Perhaps more . . . — — Map (db m87460) HM
Kansas City's Old Square
Like New Orleans' "Vieux Carre," Kansas City's old market square and its surrounding Old Town streets in River Quay are oriented on the bias to the river in the Old World fashion, rather than on the strict . . . — — Map (db m61220) HM
(Side A)
In 1821, Francois and Berenice Chouteau arrived from St. Louis to establish Kansas City's first commercial emporium, the "Chouteau Trading Post", and in effect to found Kansas City. Francois was the grandson of Pierre Laclede, . . . — — Map (db m61246) HM
By May of 1854 the air was already electrified by the sizzling-hot debate of pro-slavery versus anti-slavery when Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Now, the western territory was open and available, and whoever settled Kansas first would . . . — — Map (db m87452) HM
Founder of The Kansas City STAR
Developer of the Historic Rockhill District
Patron of the Arts
William Rockhill Nelson was born in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, and came to Kansas City in 1880. Shortly thereafter he produced the first issue . . . — — Map (db m50858) HM
For God - For Country - For DeMolay
[Back]
Dedicated on the 50th anniversary
of the Order of the DeMolay,
March 18, 1969, to the memory of
Frank S. Land
as a lasting tribute to his
inspiration and devotion to the . . . — — Map (db m91841) HM
The Park Maintenance Building, built in 1905, was designed as an "ornamental barn" by the master architect Adriance Van Brunt. The building, constructed of native limestonea and trimmed with vitrified brick, was to be used to house horses, . . . — — Map (db m44406) HM
Alexander Doniphan (1808-1887) negotiated the 1837 Platte Purchase, which increased the size of Missouri. It included the acquisition of St. Joseph, an important waterfront town and a point of departure for the Oregon and California Trails.
As . . . — — Map (db m199440) HM
Alexander Majors (1814-1900) was one of the greatest of the overland freighters and traders of the nineteenth century. He first got started in the overland trade in 1848 by taking a few wagons down the Santa Fe Trail. From this small start, Majors . . . — — Map (db m199424) HM
Felipe Chavez (1834-1906) was a skillful and ambitious merchant and trader from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Born in 1834, he took over his family's business operations in 1856, and soon built a thriving and influential operation. Hispanic traders, such as . . . — — Map (db m199429) HM
Young (1812-1882) came to Missouri as a slave. He saved enough money to purchase both his freedom and his wife Matilda's freedom. By 1850, the Young family settled in Independence, where he became known for manufacturing high quality wagons for . . . — — Map (db m199428) HM
James P. Beckwourth (1798-1866) was born in Virginia in 1798 to a slave mother and a white father. His father brought James as a child to Missouri, and soon released him from slavery. Beckwourth, on the first of his several trips from Missouri to . . . — — Map (db m199380) HM
Jim Bridger (1804-1881) was one of the greatest American mountain men and frontier explorers. He was an eighteen-year-old member of William Ashley's first expedition in 1822 to the upper reaches of the Missouri River.
In 1843, he built a . . . — — Map (db m199426) HM
John Calvin McCoy (1811-1889), an enterprising young surveyor, built a two-story log trading post in the hills four miles south of the Missouri River in 1833. Later known as Westport, it became a trading and outfitting center for traders, fur . . . — — Map (db m199448) HM
Legendary frontiersman Christopher H. "Kit" Carson (1809-1868) was a mountain man, trapper, scout, Indian agent, explorer, and guide. Some of Carson's greatest adventures took place on the Santa Fe Trail, including his initiation into the Santa Fe . . . — — Map (db m199423) HM
(This marker has two panels. From the left panel:)
Key Map
Traveling across this bridge, the fourth Red Bridge near this location since 1859, you may notice art panels attached to each of the large pillars that rise at both . . . — — Map (db m210568) HM
Public/private partnerships preserve three National Historic Trails in south Kansas City, highlighting 19th century exploration and migration that shaped the nation. In the heart of the historic 3-Trails Corridor, the Trailside Center at East 99th . . . — — Map (db m199522) HM
Visiting the Trails Today
The Santa Fe, Oregon and California Trails had a significant role in the history of the United States and have been designated by Congress as National Historic Trails. The National Park Service partners with site . . . — — Map (db m199379) HM
