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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(13) ► Jackson County(353) ► Platte County(72) ► Ray County(13) ► Wyandotte County, Kansas(104) ►
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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
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
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
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
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
The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (NLBM), located in Kansas City's historic 18th & Vine Jazz District, is dedicated to preserve the rich history of professional African-American baseball of the early 1900s to the 1950s and its profound impact on . . . — — Map (db m98412) HM
This was the main road to Harrisonville. Fagan’s Confederate Division was posted here at noon on Oct.23, 1864. At daylight that day Gen. Price’s huge wagon train moved south on this road. After his defeat at Byram’s Ford Gen. Marmaduke retreated . . . — — Map (db m28709) 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
These Queen Anne row houses were constructed in the 1880s and became known as Rat's Castle. Janis Joplin is rumored to have lived here in the 1960s. — — Map (db m198769) HM
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
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
At dawn on October 23, this now quiet creek crossing bristled with Confederate skirmishers. They lay in wait on the frosty ground behind log breast works in the dense underbrush on the high bank on the right and front.
Smoke from their camp . . . — — Map (db m187216) 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
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
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
Play began on the Kenwood Golf Links, an extension of the Hyde Park Country Club, in 1894. A group composed mostly of transplanted Scots laid out nine holes between 36th and 38th Streets, Gillham (Oak) to Charlotte, with the ninth green in the yard . . . — — Map (db m67795) HM
The Garrison Field House, now Community Center, was designed by Benjamin Lubschez, an architect with Adriance Van Brunt and Company. When completed in 1914 for more than $55,000, the field house included an administrative office, gymnasium, . . . — — Map (db m242814) 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
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
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
On Oct. 23, 1864 near noon Col. McGhee's mounted Arkansans charged north on Wornall Lane to capture McLain's Colorado Battery. Capt. Johnson of the 15th Kas. Cavalry attacked saving the guns. McGhee was killed in a hand-to-hand fight with the . . . — — Map (db m29658) HM
English Side
A Frenchman, Pierre Esprit Radisson, wrote in 1659 of a nation” of extraordinary height and bigness” (the Osage) living up the Missouri River. Marquette and Joliet’s 1674 maps show the village of the Osage, and some of . . . — — Map (db m86416) HM
2000 Baltimore Avenue
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
1913 — — Map (db m199581) HM
William Rockhill Nelson, founder of the Kansas City Star in 1880, was largely responsible for building here one of the nation's most influential newspapers. His guidance helped Kansas City become a major metropolitan center. — — Map (db m63965) 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
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
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
Kansas City’s 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
This "Spirit Mall" celebrates the hold, visionary spirit of the Kansas City region in the early days after the Civil War. Even with seemingly insurmountable challenges, the Kansas City community saw opportunity and took the steps necessary to become . . . — — Map (db m199285) 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 Artist
Ed Hogan, creator of the Exodus Family, is a life-long resident of Kansas City, Kansas. Hogan was born in 1937 and graduated with a degree in Fine Arts from the Kansas City Art Institute. He went on to get a master of Arts . . . — — Map (db m199278) 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
In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson doubled the size of the United States with the purchase of 530 million acres of land from the French government. The Louisiana Purchase captured the imagination of our nation with promises of adventure and . . . — — Map (db m199280) 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
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
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
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
At the confluence of the Missouri and Kansas (Kaw) rivers, on the great bend of the Missouri, longest of the U.S. rivers, this famous city of the vast Missouri Valley was first incorporated, 1850, as the Town of Kansas. The first white man known to . . . — — Map (db m198773) HM
Organized in 1949 to investigate corruption, the Commission has become a model for ways to organize the struggle for greater public safety. At its inception, Kansas City Businessman and civic leader E.M. Dodds pushed for the Commission to cut down . . . — — Map (db m134079) HM
[Cornerstone] Laid November 29, 1934, by the Will of the People, which is the cornerstone of all good government.
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Federal Emergency Administration
of Public Works - . . . — — Map (db m88208) HM
Opening as the Kansas Stockyards Company on June 1, 1871, it soon was renamed and reorganized as a bi-state Kansas City Stock Yards Company, growing to 13 acres by 1878. Built by enterprising railroad officials such as C.V. Morris and stock traders, . . . — — Map (db m199289) HM
On this spot on the first day of November One Thousand Nine Hundred Twenty One during the Third Convention of the American Legion in the presence of the associated war leaders Ferdinand Foch Marshal of France Armando Diaz General of the Army of . . . — — Map (db m44366) HM WM
Mayor of Kansas City - 1855 to 1859 and 1862. One of our outstanding pioneers of this great city. He was responsible for the first grading of streets beyond the levee and for obtaining the first gas and water plants. He also served in the . . . — — Map (db m63148) HM
More than two centuries ago, Meriwether Lewis, William T. Clark and their Corps of Discovery passed by this place. They traveled the pristine Missouri River for the majority of their 1804-1806 epic search for a waterway to the West Coast. Their . . . — — Map (db m200143) HM
For centuries, native people paddled their dugout canoes on the dark currents of the muddy Missouri. In the early 1800s, French trappers and traders, such as Francois Chouteau, ventured upriver to exploit the abundant wildlife: beaver, river otter, . . . — — Map (db m200141) HM
By the 1840s, hundreds of steamboats churned up the river carrying settlers west on the first leg of their journey. At Independence and Kansas City, settlers loaded manufactured goods onto wagon trains and headed farther west via the Oregon, . . . — — Map (db m200137) HM
From its headwaters in the Rocky Mountains to its mouth at the Mississippi, the Missouri River carries water 2,315 miles. Everything that happens on the land in this vast watershed affects the quality and quantity of water that flows in the river. . . . — — Map (db m200363) HM
Architects: Bradley, Winslow, & Wetherell
Constructed: 1887-88
The great building boom of the 1880's, when eastern business invested heavily in the new cities of the frontier, produced this and several other significant structures in Kansas . . . — — Map (db m64002) HM
Architects: McKim, Mead and White
Constructed: 1887-90
This Neo-Renaissance Style office building symbolizes the faith of the moneyed East in Kansas City during the unprecedented prosperity of the 1880's. The bronze eagle was cast in the . . . — — Map (db m64003) HM
English Version
A short distance northwest of this marker was the center of the village which in the early 1800's the St. Louis Chouteau called "Chez Lez Canses"" meaning "at the home of the Kansas." Others called it . . . — — Map (db m86214) HM
Phoenix Society for Individual Freedom
The Phoenix Society for Individual Freedom, formed in March 1966, was the first organization in Kansas City to address the needs of the local gay and lesbian community.
Under Drew Shafer's . . . — — Map (db m198762) HM
People Of Kansas City
By
Howard Vanderslice
To Commemorate
The Pioneer Mother
Who With Unfaltering Trust
In God Suffered The Hardship
Of The Unknown West
To Prepare For Us A Homeland
Of Peace And Plenty
Alexander Phimister . . . — — Map (db m35749) HM
Richard Thomas Coles
(educator)
Located here at 1835 Tracy, the R.T. Coles Vocational and Junior High School opened in 1936 in the building formerly occupied by Lincoln School. The school was named for Richard Thomas Coles in . . . — — Map (db m200145) HM
The great trail to Santa Fe began substantially in 1849 when the Kansas City Levee became the major landing for Santa Fe trade. Beginning on the river front at 2nd and Grand, the wagons followed the route built by Peter Roy and John C. McCoy by . . . — — Map (db m194977) HM
The exterior of the Scarritt Arcade with its ornate terra cotta shows the influence of Louis Sullivan and the 'Chicago School' of architecture. An interior skylighted open well, with windows on all sides, allows natural light into the offices . . . — — Map (db m88180) HM
This monument is dedicated to the Sisters of Saint Mary, now known as the Franciscan Sisters of Mary, who established St. Mary's Hospital on the property immediately to the south.
The cornerstone for St. Mary's was laid on October 13, 1907, and . . . — — Map (db m44387) HM
The border between Missouri and Kansas was once the most contested dividing line in the nation. It was here that abolitionist jayhawkers from Kansas and pro-slavery troops from Missouri fought to preserve their ideals and ways of life. To many . . . — — Map (db m199291) HM
To Commemorate
the
Valor and Patriotism of the Men Who Served
in the
War with Spain
Philippine Insurrection
and
China Relief Expedition
1898-1902 — — Map (db m61146) WM
The roots of the American Royal stem from the National Hereford Show in the fall of 1899, held in a tent in the Kansas City Stockyards. The American Royal was the first nationwide show for the exposition and sale of purebred cattle, having an . . . — — Map (db m199287) HM
(Left Side)The Cemetery The Union Cemetery was incorporated by the State of Missouri November 9, 1857 and the first interment was made in 1858. Many of the graves have been removed from earlier burying grounds whose capacities had been . . . — — Map (db m19941) HM
In 1885 board members of The Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad approved the extension of their line from Ottumwa, Iowa, to Kansas City. The entry of the "Milwaukee Road," as the railroad was later called, into Missouri occurred during its . . . — — Map (db m199582) HM
Built in 1887 for the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, the expansive brick building, known in Kansas City as the "Freight House," was originally used as a freight terminal for the historic rail line. The combination freight and office . . . — — Map (db m199579) HM
In October 1995, the Freight House was acquired by Kansas City Freight House LLC, for an adaptive reuse project. Construction of the up-scale urban restaurant, Lidia's, began in the spring of 1998 and was completed by the fall. As part of the . . . — — Map (db m199580) HM
English Side
One of America’s oldest and most prestigious livestock expositions, the American Royal, is situated in the very spot where Kansas City, the gateway to the agricultural West, had its beginnings. This little French-speaking enclave . . . — — Map (db m86358) HM
Firefighter Virgil Sams
Captain George Bartels
Firefighter Delbert Stone
Firefighter Neal Owen
Captain Peter Sirna
Civilian Francis J. Toomes
To each who come before this
memorial in remembrance of the final
fire for these . . . — — Map (db m60425) HM
Very near here at 1425 Grand Avenue during The Civil War, a tragedy occurred that was to intensify the ferocious hatred of the Border guerrillas for the Union forces. Under Union General Ewing's orders, the guerrillas' women were imprisoned in a . . . — — Map (db m42056) HM
Following the flood of 1903, Kansas City's original Union Depot, located in Kansas City's west bottoms, was rebuilt on this site in 1914 as Union Station and heralded as one of the most beautiful train stations, and the third largest passenger rail . . . — — Map (db m198768) HM
This 1880s iconic clock was originally constructed by the E. Howard Clock Company. By the mid-1880s it sat at the corner of 10th and Main Streets. In 1918, it was moved to 11th and Grand Avenue. Then in 1936, it was moved to Union Station where, . . . — — Map (db m198747) HM
Through the efforts of the
Permanent Memorial Day Committee Inc.,
Kansas City, Mo.
This Flag Is Dedicated
as a memorial to the
Veterans of All Wars of
The United States of America
who are buried in this cemetery.
Their . . . — — Map (db m63025) WM
