Timeline of Kansas City, Missouri

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The following is a timeline of the history of Kansas City, Missouri, United States.

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## 19th century

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* 1821
* François Chouteau set up a permanent trading post.
* Missouri became the 24th state admitted to the Union.
* 1826 - Jackson County created.
* 1833 - John Calvin McCoy founded West Port.
* 1834 - Westport Landing established on the Missouri River.[1]
* 1839 - Settlement named Town of Kansas[2] after the local Kaw People.
* 1840 - City Market established.[2]
* 1846 - Population: 700.[3]
* 1849 - Cholera pandemic of 1849 killed half the settlers of the towns of Kansas and Westport.
* 1850
* June 3: Town of Kansas formally organized municipality in Jackson County.[4]
* Kelly's Westport Inn built.
* 1853
* March 28: City of Kansas incorporated by Missouri.[4]
* William S. Gregory elected as first mayor.
* 1854
* First city council president, Johnston Lykins, became second mayor.
* Kansas City Journal-Post newspaper founded by a group of city fathers and businessmen.
* Bleeding Kansas \- violent confrontations 1854-1859.
* 1855 - Harris-Kearney House was built in Westport.
* 1856 - Alexander Majors House built.[5]
* 1857
* Chamber of Commerce established.[3]
* Union Cemetery founded.[6]
* Historic Quality Hill neighborhood developed by Kersey Coates
* Lykins Mansion built at 12th and Broadway. (The city's first mansion.)[7]
* 1858
* John Wornall House built.
* Fr. Bernard Donnelly hires 300 Irish workers to carve streets out from the bluffs.[8]
* 1859 - Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company sends first stagecoach to Denver.
* 1860 - Population: 4,418.[9]
* 1861 - The American Civil War begins.
* 1863
* Union Women's Prison collapses August 13, killing four women and injuring several more. Pro-Confederate bushwhackers cite this as justification for the Sacking of Lawrence.[10]
* General Order No. 11 removes settlers south of Brush Creek.
* 1864 - October 23: Battle of Westport.
* 1865
* Patrick Shannon becomes mayor.
* The American Civil War ends.
* Lincoln College Preparatory Academy founded.
* 1866 - St. Teresa's Academy established.
* 1867
* March 1: First meeting of the Kansas City Public Schools Board of Education.[11]
* Central High School established.
* The Kansas City Times was founded.
* Kansas City Fire Department established.
* 1868 - George Muehlebach Brewing Company founded. (Acquired by Schlitz in 1956.)
* 1869 - July 3: Hannibal Bridge over the Missouri River opens, first railroad bridge across the river.[2][12]
* 1870
* Elijah M. McGee becomes mayor.
* Coates Opera House built. (Burned down in 1901.)
* Population: 32,260.[13]
* Tivoli Garden,[14] a 6 acre beer garden at 24th & Main opens. (Closed 1879.)
* 1871
* Kansas City Bar Library Assoc. formed.[15]
* The Kansas City Stockyards established.
* 1872 - Elmwood Cemetery established.
* 1873 - First St. Patrick's Day parade.[16]
* 1874
* Kansas City Police Department created.
* St. Joseph Hospital opened.
* 1875
* Old St. Patrick Oratory built.[17]
* Fetterman Circulating Library.[18]
* Gallup Map founded.[19]
* 1879 - Lawrence F. Rieger Real Estate Broker (Now Kessinger Hunter) opens at 5th and Main.[20]
* 1880
* The Kansas City Star newspaper founded by William Rockhill Nelson and Samuel E. Morss.
* City Hospital opened.
* Population: 55,785.[9]
* 1882
* Kansas City Club founded.
* KCP&L installs electric lights.
* William Volker founded his home furnishings business.
* Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City opened.
* 1883 - Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception built. Golden dome added in 1960.
* 1884
* Boss James Pendergast begins his political career.
* The Barstow School founded.
* 1885
* Kansas City Art Institute founded, later attended by Walt Disney
* First overhead electric trolleys in the US used here.[9]
* 1886
* Bon Ami Company (now Faultless Brands) founded.
* Hyde Park subdivision begun.
* German Hospital (Research Medical Center) opens.
* First Hannibal Bridge severely damaged by a tornado.
* 1887
* Kansas City Southern Railway founded.
* J. Rieger & Co. distillery originally founded.
* Freight House in the Crossroads was built.
* Original Chouteau Bridge completed.
* St. Mary's Episcopal Church building built. (Church formed 1857.)
* 1888
* Forest Hill Cemetery founded.
* The Savoy Hotel opened.
* Original 8th Street cable car tunnel opened.[21]
* 1889
* Shook, Hardy & Bacon law firm founded.
* The city of Kansas City formed by merger of Westport and City of Kansas.[2]
* Electric streetcars begin replacing cable cars.
* Kansas City Public Library building opens.[22]
* Unity Church founded.
* 1890
* Benjamin Holmes became mayor.
* New York Life Insurance Building becomes the city's first skyscraper.
* Population: 132,716.[9]
* 1892
* August Meyer appointed president of the city's first park board.
* Kansas City's Parks and Boulevard system is designed by George Kessler.
* First Court House built.[9]
* Pencoyd Railroad Bridge built.
* 1893
* City Hall built.[9]
* Kansas City Athletic Club founded.
* The Progress Club built in Quality Hill as a social club for prominent Jewish gentlemen.[23][24]
* 1895 - Kansas City School of Law founded.
* 1896
* Kansas City Country Club founded.
* Swope Park created.
* 1897
* City workhouse castle opened, old workhouse abandoned.[25][26]
* Westport and Hyde Park annexed.
* Children's Mercy Hospital founded.[27]
* 1898 - Burns & McDonnell founded.
* 1899
* The American Royal began as a cattle show in the Kansas City Stockyards.
* Dr. Generous Henderson House completed.
* The Independent, Kansas City's society journal was founded.[28]

## 20th century

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### 1900s-1940s

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* 1900
* 1900 Democratic National Convention held. [9]
* Federal Building constructed.[9]
* Folly Theater opened.
* Population: 163,752.[9]
* 1902
* Sunshine Biscuits (formerly The Loose-Wiles Biscuit Company) founded.
* First Orthodox synagogue built.[29]
* Imperial Brewing Company Brewery opened on Southwest Boulevard.
* 1903
* Flood of 1903: Kansas River flooded the West Bottoms.
* Automobile Club of Kansas City active.
* 1904
* Penn Valley Park created.
* Improved 8th Street streetcar tunnel opened. (Closed 1956.)[30]
* Mineral Hall residence completed in Hyde Park.
* 1906 - J.C. Nichols begins developing Country Club District neighborhoods.
* 1907
* Lewis and Clark Viaduct built above the West Bottoms and over the Kaw River.
* Waddell & Harrington bridge engineering company founded.
* Electric Park opened at 46th and Paseo.
* R.A. Long Building completed at 10th and Grand.
* Westport High School established.
* 1908
* General Hospital built.[9][31]
* Henry Perry "Father of Kansas City barbecue" began business.
* 1909
* Kansas City Zoo opens in Swope Park
* Waldo neighborhood annexed.
* 1910
* Hall Brothers (Hallmark Cards) founded.
* Corinthian Hall was built by lumber baron Robert A. Long.
* Rockhurst University founded by Fr. Michael Dowling, S.J.
* Population: 248,381.[9]
* 1911
* Kansas City Star Building built.[32]
* Stuart Hall Building built.
* ASB Bridge completed.
* Union Pacific Intermodal Bridge over the Kaw River completed.
* George Washington statue installed at Washington Square.[33]
* 1912 - Grand Avenue Temple United Methodist Church built.[34] (Church formed 1865.)
* 1913
* City Center Bank founded (UMB Financial Corporation).
* Cook Paint and Varnish Company founded.
* 1914
* Western Auto Building built.
* Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and Paseo YMCA[35] open.
* Union Station opens, replacing the Union Depot.[36]
* Mack B. Nelson mansion built at 55th and Ward Parkway.
* Katz Drug Store founded.
* 1915
* HNTB Corporation founded.
* Helzberg Diamonds founded.
* Black & Veatch founded.
* Kansas City Polytechnic Institute established.[37]
* The Hotel Muehlebach opened.
* 1916 - Argentine Carnegie Library built.
* 1917
* Rockhurst College opens.[2]
* Second Hannibal Bridge opens.
* 1918 - William Thornton Kemper Sr. acquires City Center Bank.
* 1919
* Prohibition of alcohol begins. (1919-1933)
* Truman and Jacobson's haberdashery opens downtown.[38]
* The Call African-American newspaper founded by Chester A. Franklin.
* Guadalupe Center founded.[39]
* Donnelly Garment Company founded.
* The Imperial Brewing Company Brewery became the Boulevard Mill after Prohibition.
* 1920
* Kansas City Monarchs baseball team established in the Negro National League.
* University of Kansas Medical Center established.
* AMC Theatres founded. (Originally Dubinsky Bros.)
* Brookside Shopping District opens.
* Population: 324,410.[2]
* 1921
* First annual installation of the Easter Bunnies on Country Club Plaza.[40]
* Laugh-O-Gram Studio founded by Walt Disney (closes 1923)
* Monroe Hotel built.[41]
* 1922
* WPE radio begins broadcasting.
* The Scout statue in Penn Valley Park is dedicated as a permanent memorial to local Indian tribes.
* Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church built.[42]
* 1923
* Country Club Plaza opens.
* Russell Stover Candies founded.
* Fairyland Amusement Park opens at 75th & Prospect.
* 1924
* New Rialto Theater opened 18th & Vine (Boone Theater)[43]
* J.E. Dunn Construction founded.
* 1925
* Political boss Tom Pendergast becomes Chairman of the Jackson County Democratic Party.
* Hotel President built.
* Loose Park created.
* Electric Park burned down after 18 years.
* 1926
* Country Club Christian Church built at 61st & Ward Parkway. (Church formed 1920.)[44]
* Blues shouter and KC native Big Joe Turner performs and tends bar at The Sunset.[45]
* Ararat Shrine Temple and Bagdad Theatre[46] open.
* Liberty Memorial dedicated to World War I veterans, opens
* 1927
* Downtown Airport opens, dedicated by Charles Lindbergh
* Pioneer Mother Memorial in Penn Valley Park dedicated.[47]
* Southwest High School established.
* 1928
* Uptown Theater opened.
* June: 1928 Republican National Convention.
* The Blue Room jazz club opened in the Street Hotel at 18th and Paseo. (Closed 1954)[48]
* Villa Serena Apartments (later, The Raphael Hotel) opened on the Country Club Plaza.
* F. W. Woolworth Building constructed.
* 1929 - Count Basie joins the Bennie Moten Orchestra to play Kansas City jazz.[49]
* 1930
* Bryce B. Smith became mayor.
* First official Plaza Lighting Ceremony took place on Thanksgiving night.
* Kansas City Scottish Rite Temple completed.
* 1931
* Kansas City Power and Light Building constructed.
* Hotel Phillips built across from the Hotel Muehlbach.
* Prominent businesswoman, Nell Donnelly Reed was abducted.
* The Calvin Company began producing educational films.
* 1932 - First annual Plaza Art Fair held on the Country Club Plaza.[50]
* 1933
* Stroud's Restaurant opened.
* The Sunset Jazz Club opened. (Closed 1938)[48]
* Kansas City Philharmonic established. (Dissolved 1982.)
* May 27: Mary McElroy, daughter of City Manager Henry F. McElroy, was kidnapped for ransom.
* June 17: Kansas City massacre at Union Station.
* Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art opened.
* Jackson County Courthouse built.
* 1934
* March 27: Election day violence leaves 4 dead, 11 wounded.[51]
* Crime boss Johnny Lazia gunned down in front of his home.[52]
* Swope Memorial Golf Course opens.
* 1936 - Holy Land Christian Mission founded.[27]
* 1937
* Kansas City City Hall rebuilt.
* Southeast High School established.
* Charlie "Bird" Parker played jazz with Jay McShann in Kansas City.[53]
* 1939 - Tom Pendergast convicted of income tax evasion and served 15 months.
* 1940
* John B. Gage becomes mayor.
* Kansas City Museum opens.
* 1942 - Hogan Preparatory Academy established.
* 1944 - Midwest Research Institute founded.
* 1945
* Mining of SubTropolis underground storage began[54]
* Harry S. Truman Bridge (railroad bridge) completed.
* Vice President Harry S Truman sworn in as President after Franklin Roosevelt dies.
* 1946
* Linda Hall Library established.
* William E. Kemp becomes mayor.
* Gates Bar-B-Q founded by George and Arzelia Gates.
* 1948
* Harry S Truman wins 1948 United States presidential election
* First national leadership conference of the Future Homemakers of America (FHA), now Family Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA).
* 1949
* The Golden Ox restaurant, originator of the Kansas City strip steak, opened.
* Crest Drive-In cinema active (approximate date).[46]
* Richard Walker Bolling becomes U.S. representative for Missouri's 5th congressional district.[55]
* Industrial Bearings Transmission, now IBT, Inc. founded at 1625 Grand

### 1950s-1990s

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* 1950 - Starlight Theatre opened in Swope Park.
* 1951
* July: Great Flood of 1951.[56]
* J.C.Hall commissions illustrator Norman Rockwell to paint The Kansas City Spirit in response to the flood.[57]
* 1952 - Nell Donnelly Reed donates land for the James A. Reed Memorial Wildlife area.[58]
* 1953 - The Donnelly Garment Company was the largest manufacturer of women's clothing worldwide.
* Kidnapping and murder of Bobby Greenlease.
* 1954
* U.S. Weather Bureau Severe Local Storms Unit relocated to Kansas City.
* Paseo Bridge opens. (1954-2010)
* First annual Jewel Ball is held.
* 1955
* H&R Block founded
* Philadelphia Athletics of the American League relocate becoming the Kansas City Athletics.
* H. Roe Bartle becomes mayor.
* TWA Corporate Headquarters Building was built in the Crossroads.
* 1956
* First runway opens at Kansas City Industrial Airport, now KCI
* Interstate Highway System begun.
* Broadway Bridge built.
* Robert Altman's first film The Delinquents shot in Kansas City.
* The Carriage Club was founded.[59]
* 1957
* Kansas City Ballet founded.
* Ruskin Heights Tornado (F-5).
* Last electric streetcar retired.
* Russ Fiorella opens Smoke Stack Barbecue.
* KCUR-FM radio went on the air.
* Blue Ridge Mall opened.
* 1959
* Five KC firefighters killed in gas tank explosion on Southwest Blvd.[60]
* Ward Parkway Center opened.
* 1960 - Mill Creek Fountain (created in 1910) installed on the Country Club Plaza.[61]
* 1961
* Freedom, Inc. founded.
* Hickman Mills annexed.
* 1963
* Lamar Hunt relocates the Dallas Texans to become the Kansas City Chiefs
* University of Missouri–Kansas City established.
* Ilus W. Davis becomes mayor.
* Bruce R. Watkins elected as first African-American city council member.
* Martin City annexed.
* 1964 - Kansas City Repertory Theatre founded[62]
* 1966 - Lockton insurance founded.
* 1967
* Kansas City Chiefs lose the first Super Bowl to the Green Bay Packers
* Kansas City Athletics relocate to Oakland at the conclusion of the season
* The Giralda Tower constructed on the Country Club Plaza.[63]
* Sister city relationship established with Seville, Spain.[64]
* 1968 - April: 1968 Kansas City, Missouri riot.
* 1969
* Kansas City Royals baseball team formed.,[65]
* Kansas City Chiefs win Super Bowl IV
* 1970
* Universal Press Syndicate founded.
* Missouri State Representative Leon Jordan was assassinated.
* Population: 507,330.[2]
* 1971
* Charles Wheeler becomes mayor.
* Satchel Paige of the Kansas City Monarchs inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
* Crown Center opens.
* 1972
* Arrowhead Stadium opens
* NBA Cincinnati Royals became the Kansas City Kings
* Kansas City International Airport becomes the city's primary passenger airport
* Sister city relationship established with Kurashiki, Japan.[64]
* 1973
* Worlds of Fun opens.
* Kauffman Stadium opens as Royals Stadium.
* Andrews McMeel Publishing founded.
* City of Fountains Foundation founded.[66]
* Sister city relationship established with Morelia, Mexico.[64]
* 1974
* Revival of the Kansas City St. Patrick's Day Parade[67][16]
* First Hospital Hill Run takes place with 99 runners.[68]
* Kemper Arena opens.
* NHL comes to Kansas City with the establishment of the Scouts as an expansion team
* Black Archives of Mid-America founded by Horace M. Peterson III.[69]
* Sister city relationship established with Freetown, Sierra Leone.[64]
* 1975
* Kansas City Kings basketball team comes to Kemper Arena.
* Mid America Heart Institute opens.
* 1976
* Bartle Hall Convention Center opened
* 1976 Republican National Convention held in Kemper Arena.
* World Science Fiction Convention held.
* 1977
* River Quay bombings[70]
* Fairyland Park closes after extensive damage by windstorm.
* 1978
* Coates House Hotel fire claimed 20 lives.[71]
* Artist Christo installs "Wrapped Walk Ways" in Loose Park.
* Sister city relationship established with Tainan, Taiwan.[64]
* 1979
* Richard L. Berkley becomes mayor.
* The Coterie Theatre is founded.
* Kansas City Comets indoor soccer team. (1979-1991)
* Kemper Arena roof collapsed.
* 1980
* Hyatt Regency hotel opens.
* The Kansas City Royals lose World Series to the Philadelphia Phillies
* The Pitch alternative newspaper founded.
* Bannister Mall opened.
* 1981 - July 17: Hyatt Regency walkway collapse.
* 1982
* Kansas City Symphony established.
* Kansas City Business Journal founded.
* Oceans of Fun opens
* National Museum of Toys and Miniatures opens
* Kansas City Chorale founded.
* 1983 - Bobby Bell of the Kansas City Chiefs inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
* 1985
* World Series won by Kansas City Royals with Manager Dick Howser
* Harris-Kearney House opens as a museum.
* 1986 - Town Pavilion hi-rise built.
* 1987 - Len Dawson of the Kansas City Chiefs inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
* 1988
* ACT UP chapter founded.[56]
* One Kansas City Place built.
* Serial killer Bob Berdella apprehended as "Kansas City Butcher"
* Professional golfer Tom Watson inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame.
* November 29: Construction site explosion kills 6 firefighters
* 1989
* Boulevard Brewing Company founded
* Sister city relationship established with Xi'an, China.[64]
* 1990
* Mr. & Mrs. Bridge filmed in Kansas City starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward released.
* The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum founded.
* Buck Buchanan of the Kansas City Chiefs inducted into Pro Football Hall of Fame.
* The Kansas City Times ceased publication.
* Kansas City Blades hockey team founded. (1990-2001)
* Population: 435,146.[13]
* 1991
* Emanuel Cleaver becomes mayor.
* Kansas City Stockyards close.
* Firefighters' Memorial Fountain dedicated at 31st & Broadway
* The Arabia Steamboat Museum opens in the River Market.
* Sister city relationship established with Guadalajara, Mexico.[64]
* 1993
* Great Flood of 1993
* Sister city relationships established with Hannover, Germany and Port Harcourt, Nigeria.[64]
* 1994 -
* Artist Claes Oldenburg installs Shuttlecocks at the Nelson-Atkins Museum.[72]
* Sky Stations sculptures installed on pylons of Bartle Hall.
* Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art opens.
* Stowers Institute for Medical Research established.
* 1995
* Kansas City Wiz soccer team founded by Lamar Hunt.
* Sister city relationship established with Arusha, Tanzania.[64]
* 1996
* Hilton Flamingo Riverboat Casino opened. (Now Bally's Kansas City)
* Kansas City, a Robert Altman crime film is released.
* 1997
* Station Casino opened. (Now Ameristar Casino.)
* City website goes online (approximate date).[73][chronology citation needed]
* American Jazz Museum opens.
* Sister city relationship established with San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico.[64]
* 1998
* Lidia's Kansas City opened in the Freight House.
* Sister city relationship established with Ramla, Israel.[64]
* 1999
* Kay Barnes becomes mayor.
* Union Station reopens after restoration.
* George Brett of the Kansas City Royals inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame.
* Pro wrestler Owen Hart falls 70 feet to his death at Kemper arena.
* Randie Carver, North American Boxing Federation super-middleweight died defending his title.

## 21st century

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* 2000
* Ewing and Muriel Kauffman Memorial Garden opened.[74]
* Population: 441,545.[75]
* 2001
* New Chouteau Bridge completed.
* Regional Kansas City SmartPort economic development group established.
* 2002 - First Fridays began in the Crossroads Art District[76]
* 2003 - First Kansas City Irish Fest at Crown Center.
* 2004
* Zona Rosa urban shopping district opened.
* Sister city relationship established with Metz, France.[64]
* 2005
* Penn Valley skatepark opens.
* Emanuel Cleaver becomes U.S. representative for Missouri's 5th congressional district.[77]
* 2006
* Modern glass Kansas City Star Building built.[78]
* Historic Pencoyd Railroad Bridge moved to Union Station to become the Freight House Pedestrian Bridge.
* 2007
* Sprint Center (arena) opens.
* H&R Block World Headquarters built.
* Irish Museum and Cultural Center opens.
* Mark Funkhouser becomes mayor.
* The Bloch Building addition of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art opens.
* 2008 - Kansas City Power & Light District completed.
* 2009 - Andrews McMeel Syndication founded.
* 2010
* The Big Slick, an annual celebrity fundraiser for Children's Mercy Hospital.[79]
* Christopher S. Bond Bridge opens, replacing demolished Paseo Bridge
* Population: 459,787.[80]
* 2011
* Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts opens.
* Todd Bolender Center for Dance and Creativity opened. (Remodeled from Union Station Power House, built in 1914.)
* Sly James becomes mayor.
* Population: 463,202; metro 2,052,676.[81]
* 2012
* Google Fiber service begins.[82][83]
* Legendary Kansas City broadcaster, Walt Bodine dies.
* Kansas City Startup Village established.[84]
* 2013
* Kansas City Sculpture Park renamed to honor Donald J. Hall, Jr.[85]
* JJ's Restaurant on the Plaza destroyed by gas explosion; 1 fatality, 15 injured.[86]
* 2014
* Liberty Memorial officially designated The National World War I Monument and Museum.
* J. Rieger & Co. distillery re-established after 95 years
* 2015
* World Series won by Kansas City Royals
* Knuckleheads Saloon music venue opened in the East Bottoms.
* 2016
* KC Streetcar entered service.
* Broadway Bridge renamed Buck O'Neil Bridge.
* 2019
* Quinton Lucas elected mayor
* Artist Andy Goldsworthy installs "Walking Wall"[87] at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
* 2020 - Kansas City Chiefs win Super Bowl LIV
* 2021 - Chiefs lose Super Bowl LV
* 2022
* Buck O'Neil of the Kansas City Monarchs inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame.
* Kansas City Public Schools regain full accreditation.
* 2023
* Chiefs win Super Bowl LVII
* New KCI airport terminal opens.[88]
* New Kansas City flag design adopted.
* 2024
* Chiefs win Super Bowl LVIII
* Kansas City Parade Shooting
* 2025
* Chiefs win AFC Championship.
* Chiefs lost Super Bowl LIX.

## See also

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* List of mayors of Kansas City, Missouri
* History of the Kansas City metropolitan area
* Timeline of St. Louis

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## Bibliography

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### 19th century publications

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* Business directory, 1866
* Theo. S. Case, ed. (1888). History of Kansas City, Missouri. Syracuse, N.Y.: D. Mason.
* William Griffith (1900), History of Kansas City, Kansas City, Mo: Hudson-Kimberly Pub. Co., OCLC 181275439, OL 23304661M

### 20th century publications

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* "Kansas City, Mo.". Kansas State Gazetteer and Business Directory, including a complete business directory of Kansas City, Mo. R.L. Polk & Co. 1908.
* Carrie Westlake Whitney (1908), Kansas City, Missouri: its History and its People 1808-1908, Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., OL 6544377M
* "Kansas City (Missouri)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 661–662.
* Federal Writers' Project (1941), "Kansas City", Missouri: A Guide to the 'Show Me' State, American Guide Series, New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce`{{citation}}`: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link)
* "Kansas City, Heartland U.S.A.", National Geographic Magazine, vol. 150, Washington DC, 1976
* Ory Mazar Nergal, ed. (1980), "Kansas City, MO", Encyclopedia of American Cities, New York: E.P. Dutton, p. 179+, OL 4120668M
* Rick Montgomery; Shirl Kasper (1999). Kansas City: An American Story. Kansas City Star Books. ISBN 978-0-9604884-0-7.

### 21st century publications

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* Paul S. Boyer, ed. (2001). "Kansas City". Oxford Companion to United States History. Oxford University Press. p. 417. ISBN 978-0-19-508209-8.
* Wishart, David J., ed. (2004). "Cities and Towns: Kansas City, Kansas and Missouri". Encyclopedia of the Great Plains. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-4787-7.
* American Cities Project (2013). "Kansas City (MO)". America's Big Cities in Volatile Times: City Profiles. Washington, DC: Pew Charitable Trusts.
* William S. Worley (2002). Kansas City: Rise of a Regional Metropolis. Heritage Media Corp.
* James R. Shortridge (2012). Kansas City and How it Grew, 1822-2011. University of Press of Kansas.
* Mildred Ray. Kansas City Public Library. "Armour Meat Packing".

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* Kansas City Public Library. "Local History and Genealogy Research Guides".
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