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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Kansas City, Missouri
Liberty is the county seat for Clay County
Kansas City is in Clay County
Clay County(75) ► ADJACENT TO CLAY COUNTY Clinton County(3) ► Jackson County(289) ► Platte County(72) ► Ray County(13) ► Wyandotte County, Kansas(41) ►
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"The Antioch Congregation was organized as a Christain Church (Disciples of Christ) in September 1853 by Moses Easterly Lard (1818-1880), Pastor of the Liberty Christain [sic] Church in Missouri. Its first 'Meeting House', a one room building, and . . . — — Map (db m86636) HM
Congregation established in 1853 by Rev. Moses E. Lard as Christian Church. Building constructed 1859. Has served since as worship and social center. Reorganized as Community Church 1930. Building moved and [illegible] by Antioch Church Historical . . . — — Map (db m86639) HM
Congregation formed in 1853 as Antioch Christian Church.
This building erected in 1859. Restored by Antioch Community Church Historical Society, organized December 1964 with Hugh P. Loughrey founding president.
[Additional plaque . . . — — Map (db m86640) HM
This historic aviation facility is named in honor of longtime medical pathologist, Jackson County coroner, judge, and Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, Charles B. Wheeler. In appreciation of his dedication to air service expansion for the people of . . . — — Map (db m58406) HM
dedicated cemetery dating to the earliest days of Clay County. Many pioneers are buried here including James Crowley, a Revolutionary soldier. — — Map (db m140837) HM
In 1927 led the city's airport development program and personally laid the framework for the network of air transport routes which today make Kansas City the Air Hub of the Nation. — — Map (db m58407) HM
Homeplace settled by Elbridge Arnold in 1838, home built in 1856. Family home of William A. Crouch 1922 until it became the home of Edwin Yancey Crouch in 1940. — — Map (db m49819) HM
Confederate Gen. Price made his headquarters here the night of Oct. 22, 1864. His generals convinced him to start south but he refused to abandon his 500-wagon train of war booty. Gen. Shelby's Division camped near Forest Hill cemetery. . . . — — Map (db m30324) HM
This heroic size interpretation of
Frederic Remington's
"Bronco Buster"
is presented by friends of
Dutton Brookfield, 1917-1979
to memorialize his promotion
of the Kansas City Spirit
through outstanding business, civic
and . . . — — Map (db m88206) HM
Dr. McKenzie was a surgeon, physician, educator, artist and sculptor. In addition he was also an athlete, a teacher, a writer and a volunteer Scouter.
A personal friend of Scouting's founder, Sir Robert Baden-Powell, he shared with B-P his . . . — — Map (db m72046) 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
He was a member of the firm of
Russell, Majors and Waddell,
founders, owners and operators
of the Pony Express.
This marks his grave.
The Pony Express
1860-1861 1960-1961 — — Map (db m63030) 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
When Alexander Majors completed this house and its accompanying, but now demolished barns and pens, it formed a trading terminus for the firm of Russell, Majors and Waddell. By 1858 the firm was responsible for a force of 3,500 wagons carrying . . . — — Map (db m84746) HM
The American Jazz Museum is an important cultural institution dedicated to its mission of celebrating and exhibiting jazz through performance, education, exhibitions and research at America's Jazz Crossroads - 18th and Vine.
There were four major . . . — — Map (db m98414) HM
West Inscription
Kansas City's First Park, the keystone of our park system, given to the city by William and Catherine Drips Mulkey, May 5, 1882, in honor of Andrew Drips.
Erected by The Historical Committee West Side Community Council . . . — — Map (db m86438) HM
On Oct. 22, 1864, after the Union line along the Big Blue was flanked, Jackman's Confederate Brigade overran the militia at the Mockbee Farm, 78th & Holmes, and drove Jennison's Union Brigade back to the state line. Jennison and Moonlight's . . . — — Map (db m30291) HM
left marker
Oct. 22, 1864
Union General Curtis set up a defensive line on the west side of the Big Blue River from the Missouri River upstream for 15 miles to stop Confederate General Price advancing from the east. A Battalion of . . . — — Map (db m28694) HM
On the morning of October 23, 1864 Federal cavalry under General Alfred Pleasonton forced a crossing of the Big Blue at Byram's Ford and assaulted this hill which was defended by General Marmaduke's Confederate division. After three hours of heavy . . . — — Map (db m28313) HM
Here just before noon on Sunday, October 23, 1864, Major General Samuel Ryan Curtis, commanding the Federal Army of the Border, began his flanking movement of Brigadier General Joseph Orville Shelby's Division of the Confederate Army of Missouri. . . . — — Map (db m21702) HM
Gen. Sterling Price was on this spot at 11:00 a.m. but retired before the armies had reached this disposition.
Positions after the Union flank attack. Lines moved back and forth with charges and countercharges, although cavalry, most were . . . — — Map (db m28114) HM
Near this point on the morning of October 23, 1864, Capt. Richard A. Collins' Confederate battery of Shelby's Brigade went into action, supported by two cavalry battalions. for two hours this battery dueled with the 9th Wisconsin battery, covering . . . — — Map (db m28110) HM
The brick house in the rear was owned by Wm. Bent, fur trader. On Sun., Oct. 23, 1864 heavy fighting occurred here. After Union Gen. Curtis flanked the Confederate line by coming up a ravine (Rockwell Lane) his troops were a few rods north of the . . . — — Map (db m21722) 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
Erected by the
United States
to mark the burial place of
fifteen Confederate Soldiers
who died at Kansas City, Missouri,
while prisoners of war and
whose remains were buried in the
City Cemetery and subsequently
removed to . . . — — Map (db m63093) WM
History of Byram's Ford
Freighter Augustine Byram from Kentucky settled here in 1839. Overlooking the Byram's Ford crossing of the Big Blue River, his log cabin stood 900 yards west of here on the rise dubbed by the soldiers in 1864 as . . . — — Map (db m187187) HM
At 8 A. M. on October 23, 1864, Federal cavalry under General Alfred E. Pleasonton forced a crossing of the Blue River at Byrams Ford and attacked the stone ridge, which was defended by Confederate troops under John S. Marmaduke. After 3 hours . . . — — Map (db m28705) HM
Byram's Ford Historic District
has been placed on the
National Register of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
Site of the
Battle of the Big Blue
October 22 and 23, 1864
and the . . . — — Map (db m144706) HM
In June July, 1861, barracks and service buildings within a 200-foot-square earthwork were built on this site by the battalion of United States Reserve Corps, Companies A, B, and C, organized by Major R. T. Van Horn, then Mayor of the City. By . . . — — Map (db m51192) HM
Founder of the
Presidents and Past Presidents
General Assembly
of
Greater Kansas City, Incorporated
to further the war efforts
and served as it's president
1917-1918 1925-1942 . . . — — Map (db m88269) HM
2012 marks the Centennial Anniversary
of the gift of 3,000 Flowering Cherry Trees
from Japan to the United States.
To celebrate this Anniversary, the
Japanese Government repeated the gift to cities
throughout the United States
as a . . . — — Map (db m88267) HM
To the author of The Annals of The City of Kansas and the Great Western Plains.
1858
Charles Carroll Spalding, who in the day of small things had the bold vision to foresee the future city. — — Map (db m86317) 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
Dedicated October 5, 2001
In 1999 - The 100th Anniversary of the founding of the Veterans of Foreign Wars - this bronze statue was commissioned to commemorate the organization's first century of service to veterans, those in uniform and the . . . — — Map (db m86345) HM WM
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
At 8:30 A.M. Sun., Oct. 23, 1864, Gen. Shelby's Division moved north and struck Union troops near the Wornall House. Gen. Blunt's Union cavalrymen were driven across Brush Creek. Shelby stopped to bring up ammunition. About 3,000 Confederate men . . . — — Map (db m21705) HM
In the frosty darkness of the early pre-dawn hours of October 22, 1864, 300 citizen soldiers of the 4th Kansas State Militia crossed over Byram's Ford here. They encamped on the west side in a nearby cornfield on the opposite high bank. The . . . — — Map (db m187215) HM
Kansas Citys expression of service and hospitality has a rich historical heritage starting in 1899, when the original convention hall opened with a concert by John Philip Sousa and his band. The success of the hall was proven when the Democratic . . . — — Map (db m86215) HM
Lawyer, Park Commissioner from 1908 to 1912, and early pioneer for the Kansas City Park Department.
Delbert J. Haff was retained in 1893 by the city's first Park Board. He was largely responsible for solving the financial and legal problems . . . — — Map (db m88276) HM
This sculpture serves as a memorial to the great herds of Plains Buffalo - a reminder of what was compromised in the development of our great nation and is now lost from the landscape
- Marc Swanson, artist, 2010
The primary cause of the . . . — — Map (db m88200) HM
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company presents this statuary to the Kansas City Area Council, Boy Scouts of America, in recognition of Scouting's contribution to this nation and as a lasting tribute to those who have earned its highest award
The . . . — — Map (db m44395) HM
Revolutionary War Patriot
Taken captive - Martin's Station,
on land now part of Kentucky,
June 1780
Held by British until
November 1782 — — Map (db m63147) 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
In 1896, two years after introducing golf to Kansas City at the Kenwood Golf Links east of Gilham and south of 36th Street, devotees of the game sought larger space here, at Seth Ward's east pasture. A $1-a-year lease was signed, and a nine-hole . . . — — Map (db m88252) HM
Earliest grave
Isaac Flanery, 1841
Last Recorded Grave
Andrew Jackson Frost, 1928
This one acre wooded glade is the resting place of approximately 25 early pioneers of the Raytown, Jackson County, Missouri area and several Union soldiers . . . — — Map (db m91100) 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
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
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 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
Famous Painter & Portrait Artist
Internationally Known
State Treasurer
State Adjutant General
President, Kansas City, Mo. Police Board
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Eminently gifted, almost . . . — — Map (db m62974) HM
Making the choice of organ and tissue donation will save lives, provide hope, and spare families the needless loss of loved ones. Kansas City is the first city in the country to have a special fountain honoring organ and tissue donors. "Joie de . . . — — Map (db m88275) 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
The inspiration for the design of this tower came from the original Giralda Tower which is a part of the great cathedral of Seville, Spain — — Map (db m80596) 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
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
This was the main road to Harrisonville. Fagans Confederate Division was posted here at noon on Oct.23, 1864. At daylight that day Gen. Prices huge wagon train moved south on this road. After his defeat at Byrams Ford Gen. Marmaduke retreated . . . — — Map (db m28709) 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
Built in 1901 by Irish immigrants, Edward and Mary Flavin to continue their established Flavin Grocery. The upper loft was their residence. In 1917, the grocery passed to their daughter and son-in-law Margaret & James M. (Jim) Browne, Sr. The name . . . — — Map (db m86245) 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
In loving memory of Robert Bisbee, and in gratitude to his wife, Carol Bisbee, for designing, building and installing the cross on Holy Rosary's bell tower on the 10th of September 2003. — — Map (db m64000) HM
Originally platted as part of the City of Westport and intended as a planned, residential area, Janssen Place was conceived and developed by Arthur E. Stilwell, an urban planner and railroad magnate who founded Kansas City Southern and other . . . — — Map (db m194979) HM
RAYMOND J. CAFFREY
Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation
OTTO REED
Chief of Police, McAlester, Oklahoma
WILLIAM J. GROOMS
Detective, Kansas City Missouri Police Department
FRANK HERMANSON
Detective, Kansas City Missouri Police . . . — — Map (db m19942) 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
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
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
This plaque is placed here in honor of James Gailey Ashley, Jr. and his wife, Pamela C. Ashley, who for 25 years struggled and sacrificed to preserve this railroad right-of-way, which provided freight and passenger service beginning in the . . . — — Map (db m69375) 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
Died on the Santa Fe Trail between
Council Grove, Ks. and Kansas City, Mo.
Member, Georgia State Legislature
Mexican War Veteran
First Territorial Governor of New Mexico — — Map (db m63021) HM
Originally intended as a planned, residential area, Janssen Place was conceived and developed by Arthur E. Stilwell, a railroad magnate and urban planner. Designed in 1897 and patterned after Portland and Westmoreland Places in St. Louis, . . . — — Map (db m194978) HM
This Building was originally constructed as the Paseo YMCA which opened in 1914 to provide Kansas citians of color a place that would specifically allow them a public or private multi-purpose facility serving as a meeting place for community . . . — — Map (db m98433) HM
John C. McCoy founded West Port, Mo. in 1834. He was also one of the original proprietors of the Town of Kansas, later Kansas City, Mo., in 1846 — — Map (db m62986) HM
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