The history of the Kansas City metropolitan area began in the 19th century as a Frenchman from St. Louis, Missouri moved to the Missouri River to trap for feathers and trade with Native Americans. The Kansas City metropolitan area, which runs along the border between Missouri and Kansas at the Kansas and Missouri River meetings, is a strategic point for trade and security. Kansas City, Missouri was founded in 1838 and defeated Westport's rival to become the dominant city to the west of St. Louis. Louis. This area plays a major role in the expansion west of the United States. The Santa Fe, and Oregon paths cross the area. In 1854, when Kansas opened for a European-American settlement, the Missouri-Kansas border became the first battleground in the conflict in the American Civil War.
Video History of the Kansas City metropolitan area
Exploration
Bourgmont
The first documented French visitors to the Kansas City area were the Éeñe tienne de Veniard, Sieur de Bourgmont, who was also the first European to explore the lower Missouri River. Bourgmont is in the lam from French authorities after leaving his post as commander of Fort Detroit, having been criticized for dealing with the Native American attack on the castle. She lives with an Indigenous American wife in a Missouri village about 90 miles (145 km) east near Brunswick, Missouri, and illegally traded furs.
To clear his name, Bourgmont wrote "The Right Louisiana Description, of the Harbors, Land and River, and Name of the Occupying Indians, and the Trades and Profits to Enter for the Formation of Colonies" in 1713 followed in 1714 by "The Route To Be Taken to Ascend Missouri River. " In these documents, he described the crossroads of the rivers of Kansas and Missouri, becoming the first to name them by names. French cartographer Guillaume Delisle uses descriptions to create the first most accurate map of the region.
The French appreciated Bourgmont by giving him the highest honor and named him Missouri commander. He built the first fort (and the first settlement in Missouri) in 1723 at Fort Orleans, near his home in Brunswick. In 1724, Bourgmont led a group of Native Americans who might ascend the Kansas River en route to the southwest to form an alliance with Comanche against the Spanish, thus creating a new French Empire extending from Montreal via Kansas City to New Mexico. To celebrate the success of the venture, he took the Indian chief at a dinner party to Paris to hunt with Louis XV and see the glory of France at Versailles and Fontainebleau.
Bourgmont was promoted to the official status of the nobility and lived in Normandy, not accompanying the leaders back to the New World. According to legend, Native Americans then massacred everyone in Fort Orleans garrison. Spain took over the territory in the Paris Treaty in 1763, but it did not play a major role in this area other than taxes and licenses all traffic on the Missouri River. The French continue trading their feathers on the river under a Spanish license.
Lewis & amp; Clark Era
After the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, Lewis and Clark Expedition left St. Louis. Louis on a mission to reach the Pacific Ocean. In 1804, Lewis and Clark camped for three days at a meeting of the Kansas and Missouri rivers in Kansas City today, Kansas (immortalized at Kaw Point Riverfront Park [1]). During their stay at the Missouri and Kansas meetings, they met French feather merchants and charted the Quality Hill area in what eventually became Kansas City, Missouri, calling it "a great place for a fortress."
Due to the growing trade on the Missouri River from St. Louis, especially after Lewis and Clark's expedition, the United States Government seeks to create government posts throughout the region. In 1808, Fort Osage was founded 20 miles from the confluence of the Missouri and Kansas Rivers near Sibley, Missouri today.
Kaw's Mouth
In 1812, after Louisiana formally became a state, the remaining parts of the original Louisiana Territory north of Arkansas were renamed Missouri Territories. When a plan was made to divide the territory for Missouri's entry into the union it was determined that the western frontier of the new state would run from Iowa along the Missouri River to the confluence of the Kansas River (Kaw) and Missouri River, then as a straight line leading south to the northwest corner Arkansas. As part of the Missouri Compromise in 1821, Congress recognized Missouri to the union as the 24th state and as a slave state. The confluence of two rivers, alternately known as the villages of Kansa, Chouteau, Quindaro, Westport Landing, Missouri River Quay, Kansas City, Kansas City and finally Kansas City, has undergone several floods and rivers. change. Since 1800, the meeting has moved about a quarter mile above the Missouri River.
Maps History of the Kansas City metropolitan area
Beginning in the mid-1800s
Native Americans
Missouri joined the Union in 1821 and, after the Treaty of St. Louis in 1825, the 1,400 Missouri Shawnees were forcibly removed from Cape Girardeau to southeastern Kansas, close to the Neosho River. In 1826, the Prophet Tenskwatawa established a village in Argentina, Kansas. During 1833, only the Black Bob Shawnee group rejected the relocation effort. They settled in northeastern Kansas, near Olathe and along the Kansas River in Monticello, near Gum Springs. Tenskwatawa died in 1836 in his village in Kansas City, Kansas (ed., Marker White Feather Spring noted the location).
early European settlers
The first European residential language in Kansas City is French. In 1821, FranÃÆ'§ois Gesseau Chouteau was 24, nephew Renà ©  © Auguste Chouteau, setting up a permanent trading post on a big bend in the Missouri River that formed the Northeast Industrial Zone (passed by Chouteau Trafficway today). He called the post "the village of Kansa." In 1825, after the Indians agreed to leave the westernmost six miles from Missouri to the Kansas encounter, the area was referred to as "Chouteau." In 1826, Chouteau moved his trading post to higher ground, Troost Avenue and the river, after the flood. He also financed the first Catholic church, built on top of Quality Hill.
The area was soon inhabited by trappers, scouts, merchants, and peasants, leading to the merger of Jackson County, Missouri, in 1827 and the establishment of the city of Independence, located about 10 miles (16 km) from the river junction, as its county seat. As the number of farmers increases, fur traders retreat to the north. In 1831, Moses Grinter set up a ferry on the Kansas River on an ancient Indian trail with Kaw water. Grinter is one of the earliest permanent white settlers in the Kansas City, Kansas, area.
Latter-day Saint movement
In 1831, members of the Church of Christ, the original name of the Latter-day Saint church founded by Joseph Smith, came from Kirtland, Ohio, and New York State and bought about 2,000 acres (8.1 km km 2 ) Land in the Paseo and Troost Lake areas. Conflict between Saints and other Missouri citizens, leading to the expulsion of Latter-day Saints from Jackson County in 1833 and the 1838 Mormon War.
Later, various Latter-day Saint groups returned to Jackson County, the first of which was a member of the small Church of Christ (Temple Lot), which was soon followed by followers of the Church of Reorganization of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints under the leadership of Joseph Smith III and other faction members, some of whom have set up their headquarters near Independence, Missouri.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Today, there are a number of prominent members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The LDS Church is the largest sect in the Latter-day Saint movement and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. The LDS Church opens the Kansas City Missouri Temple on May 6, 2012.
Landing Westport and Westport
Over the following years, Kansas City's character is defined by those who want to live close to the river (the so-called "rabbits") and those who want to live in the hills ("goats"). John Calvin McCoy, who is considered a "father of Kansas City", has a hand in building settlements in both locations. In 1833, he opened a trading post on the hills three miles south of the river. McCoy named him "West Harbor" because this is the last place to get supplies before tourists go to the Kansas Territory on the California Trail, Santa Fe Trail, and the Oregon Trail. McCoy gets supplies from boats anchored on a rocky cliff in the river on Main Street and river; the area is called "Westport Landing." McCoy's landings and Chouteau trading post were to drive traffic to the outpost before the settlers went to the Kansas River or the Missouri River. The road connecting Westport with the trading post and Westport Landing follows Broadway. In 1834, John Hancock's steamy vessel, stuffed with goods for McCoy, became the first steamer docked in Westport Landing and opened a new era of communication and transportation for the area.
Kansas City
The expansion around the landing stalled because it was a farm mostly owned by Gabriel Prudhomme. In 1838, McCoy and Chouteau and other merchants formed the "Kansas City Company" and bought a 271 acre (1,1 km 2 ) Prudhomme field for $ 4,220. Investors reject other names for new cities including Port Fonda, Rabbitville and Possum Trot. The following year, in 1839, Chouteau died, and the area outside Landing Westport renamed Kansas City .
Throughout the 1840s, the population and importance of Kansas City swelled that moment and near Independence and Westport became the starting point in Oregon, Santa Fe, and California's streets for the settlers heading west. Between St. Louis and California, the Kansas/Missouri river junction is one of several densely populated areas. The first train journey came to Kansas City in 1847.
Jackson County finally officially entered Kansas City on June 3, 1850 (traditionally regarded as the date of the founding of Kansas City). The population is about 1,500 people. The first newspaper (now-dead Kansas City Ledger) and the first telegraph service were established in Kansas City in 1851.
Kansas City
Missouri officially entered the city on March 28, 1853; it changed the name to Kansas City . In the first city election in 1853, there were 67 voters from the estimated population of 2,500. The initial area is about 10 blocks west to east and five blocks north to south. It borders Bluff Road (about the current Interstate 35 location) to the west, Independence Avenue to the south and Holmes Street to the east and the Missouri River to the north. William S. Gregory became the first mayor but had to resign within 10 months when it was discovered that the mayor actually had to stay in the city.
Border War
At the time of the merger of Kansas City, Missouri was still a slave state. However, the population is deeply divided into slavery issues. In 1854, the United States Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which rejected the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and allowed new territories to choose whether they wanted to allow slavery, while Missouri Compromise had banned slavery in new states to be made north of the latitudes. 36 Â ° 30 '. Thus, according to the Missouri Compromise, the Kansas Area (located just west of Kansas City, Missouri) has become a free territory but can now choose to allow slavery.
As a result of the new potential for slavery in Kansas, pro-slave activists infiltrated the Kansas Territory from neighboring Missouri. For abolitionists and other Free-Staters, who want Kansas to be accepted in the Union as an independent state, they are collectively known as Border Ruffians. Pro-slavery Missourians flock to Kansas with power, choosing Kansas Legislative Pro-slavery Territorials. In response, abolitionists began to arrive in the area, and in 1855 they declared the Kansas Territorial Legislature "bogus" and elected their own representatives to form a new territorial government in Lawrence, Kansas (about 35 miles (56 km) west of Kansas City). The newly established Kansas City soon found itself in the midst of a dispute known as Bleeding Kansas.
Despite the ongoing conflict, Kansas City continues to grow rapidly. It acquired the courthouse, the municipal market, and the chamber of commerce in 1857. In 1858, local violence had grown so fiercely that the Governors of Kansas and Missouri state requested US President James Buchanan to send federal troops. The president agreed, and with the presence of troops, the violence seemed extinguished.
Civil War
Missouri stayed at the Union during the Civil War. However, since the city's first settlers arrived via the Missouri River from the South, major tensions have arisen there between pro-Union and pro-Confederate sympathizers. Missourian Sterling Price is to combat the fighting in the area at the beginning and end of the war, hoping to incite the citizens to join the cause of the South. Thus, Kansas City and its immediate surroundings became the focus of intense military activity. The First Battle of Independence resulted in the Confederate victory, but the South could not follow it in any meaningful way, because Kansas City was occupied by Union forces and proved too fortified for them to be attacked.
In 1863, William Quantrill fired and burned Lawrence, killing 168 people in what Lawrence Massacre called. Union General Thomas Ewing, Jr., believes that the attack was rooted in four Missouri counties on the Kansas border south of the Missouri River, announcing General Orders no. 11 who ordered the expulsion of all people living in rural areas outside the designated. urban areas, regardless of their loyalty. This command affected those who lived south of Brush Creek and east of the Blue River, and proved to be a source of long-lasting hatred after the war. The first mayor of the city was exiled to St. Petersburg. Louis.
In 1864, Price invaded Missouri in the last Confederate attack called Price's Raid. He pushed Union forces out of Independence in the Second Battle of Independence and into Kansas City, resulting in an Important Battle in October of that year near Brush Creek. Prices are convincingly defeated and forced out of the country, ending all significant Confederate military operations in the area.
After the war, Kansas City remains a hotbed for former pro-Southerns. John Newman Edwards founded Kansas City Times to secretly oppose the Republican government. He also created the anti-hero myth of Jesse James, with James as a modern Robin Hood that fights an unfair Reconstruction of the Republic. Jesse James went on to rob open spaces in Kansas City on 12th Street and Campbell, while staying in various places throughout the metropolitan area.
Mid to late 1800s
Country Road Intersection
In 1865, Missouri Pacific railway reached Kansas City. At that time, Kansas City had a population similar to Independence and Leavenworth, Kansas. It changed in 1867, when Kansas City beat Leavenworth (then more than twice the size of Kansas City) for Hannibal & St. Bridge Bridge Joseph Railroad over the Missouri River. The Hannibal Bridge, designed by Octave Chanute, was opened in 1869. With it, the city's population increased fourfold in fifty years.
In 1889, with a population of about 130,000, the city adopted a new charter and changed its name to Kansas City . In 1897, Kansas City annexed Westport. The initial encounter of the tracks took place in the West Bottoms area that had previously been used for holidaymakers in Oregon and Santa Fe trails that had followed the Kansas River. The largest equipment facilities are Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company. The company went out of business after the collapse of Pony Express. The facility is being a Kansas City Stockyard. The city became the second busiest (to Chicago) train station in the country (and still is). In 1914, Union Station township in Bottoms West became obsolete and a new Union Station was built. Cow Town
In 1871, Kansas City Stockyards exploded in West Bottoms because of their central location in the country and its proximity to the railroad. They became number two after Chicago, and the city itself was identified with the famous Kansas City steakhouse. In 1899, the American Hereford Association held a livestock assessment contest in a tent at a cattle storage area. The show soon became the annual American Royal livestock festival for two months. The Kansas City Stockyards were destroyed in the Great Flood of 1951 and never fully recovered.
Strawberry Hill
In 1887, John G. Braecklein built a Victorian house for John and Margaret Scroggs in the Strawberry Hill area. This is a great example of the architecture of the Queen Anne Style founded in Kansas City, Kansas.
1890 to 1940
Pendegast Era
The Pendergast Era, under the boss of Democrat James and Tom Pendergast from 1890 to 1940, ushered in a colorful and influential era for the city. The Pendergasts lead the era when many great personalities form the city and contribute throughout the country. During this period, Pendergast ensured that the national ban was meaningless in Kansas City; Kansas City road and park system developed; Country Club Plaza, Country Club District, and Ward Parkway were created; TWA makes Kansas City the center of national aviation; most of Kansas city center buildings were built; its inner-city culture develops with contributions to the Negro League (baseball), Kansas City jazz (music), Kansas City (cuisine) barbecues, livestock and railway (industrial and transportation) ranks second after Chicago; and Harry S Truman, from nearby Independence, became President. Most of the construction during this "wide open day" uses the Readi-Mix Concrete Mixer, and this era is characterized by considerable violence and corruption. Pendergast ultimately deflected to the cost of tax evasion 1939.
Prohibition
Kansas enacted a statewide ban on 19 February 1881. In Kansas City, however, residents on the Kansas side of the area who want to drink just go across the state line to Kansas City, Missouri, to the many salons and bars there. 12th Street in Downtown Kansas City is known for its many taverns. Despite the ongoing simplicity movement, however, Missouri never imposed a state ban. In fact, the Missourians actually refused statewide restrictions in three separate referendums in 1910, 1912, and 1918, all of which were carried by citizen initiative petitions. In April 1901, renowned rebel fighters Carrie A. Nation came to Kansas City and began to enter the saloons on 12th Street and destroyed the bottle of liquor with his ax. When he entered Flynn's Saloon on April 15, he was immediately arrested, taken to the Police Court (now known as the Kansas City City Court), fined $ 500 ($ 11,500 in dollars in 2006), and ordered by a judge to leave Kansas City and not never go back.
When the ban was finally enacted in Missouri in 1919 through the 18th Amendment and the next Volstead Act, Kansas City was essentially unaffected, largely because of the Pendergast machine. Thanks to Pendergast, the ban is "never in Kansas City": Pendergast keeps the bar and liquor running, and Kansas City federal prosecutor (who is on Pendergast pendergast) has never brought a crime prosecution under the Volstead Act. Dr. George Miller, editor of the Omaha Herald, even commented, "If you want to see some sin, forget about Paris Go to Kansas City." So when the ban was finally lifted in 1933 through the 21st Amendment, very little change in Kansas City.
World War I Warning
The Liberty Memorial, which houses the National World War I Museum, was dedicated on November 11, 1926, by US President Calvin Coolidge. Attending the first stone laying ceremony on November 1, 1921, were Lt. Gen. Baron Jacques of Belgium, Admiral Lord Earl Beatty of England, General Armando Diaz of Italy, Marshal Ferdinand Foch of France and General John Pershing of the United States. In 1935, bas reliefs by Walker Hancock of Jacques, Beatty, Diaz, Foch and Pershing were introduced.
Union Station Massacre
Violent activity and gangsters mushroomed during this time as well. On June 17, 1933, three gangsters attempted to free Frank Nash from FBI prisoners, but ultimately killed him and four unarmed agents. This is known as the Union Station massacre. The gangsters had spent the previous night at the Hotel Monroe, adjacent to the Pendergast office, and had received help in avoiding police troops bribed from John Lazia, a major underground character with connections to Pendergast.
Political history
James Pendergast
In 1880, James Pendergast, the eldest son of Irish immigrants, moved to the Kansas City West Ward. He worked at a local iron casting factory until he bought a bar with the money he won from betting on a longshot horse ("Climax") on a local racing track. From his new bar, Pendergast began networking with local leaders and immediately built a strong faction in Jackson County Democratic Party. Pendergast factions are called "goats," because they are supported by those who live in the hills above the river. Its main rival is "rabbit" because they tend to come from the area around the river. The leader of this faction is Joe Shannon.
Tom Pendergast
Just before winning the ninth of his nine provisions in the city council in 1892, James summoned Tom's younger sister from St. Joseph. When Jim's health deteriorated, Tom began to utilize many of his brother's connections to lead the "Goat" faction after Jim's death in 1910. Tom replaced Jim on board as well, but left after three periods and took a stronger position as chairman of Jackson County Democratic Club with its headquarters in 1908 Main Street.
City manager
In 1925, Kansas City, Missouri, voted in favor of forming a city-based government with a city council of 12 members instead of two rooms out of a total of 32 members, giving Tom an easier path to gain majority control. In 1925, the Pendergast machine had formed a majority, appointing a passive mayor and a powerful city manager Henry McElroy. Pendergast powers grew during the Great Depression, creating a Ten-Year Plan bond plan that aims to put unemployed Kansas citizens to work on building a standing civil structure, including Town Hall, Municipal Auditorium, and Jackson County Courthouse. This structure, the art deco sport architecture, is built with concrete provided by the company's Ready Mix Concrete Pendergast and other companies that give bribes to Pendergast.
At its peak, the machine greatly influenced the politics of the state, easily picking County Platte judge Guy Brasfield Park, governor of Missouri in 1932 when Democratic candidate Francis Wilson died two weeks before the election. Also during this time, Kansas City also became the center of nightlife and music, with jazz by musicians such as Count Basie and Charlie Parker, and blues flourished in areas such as 18 and Vine. Pendergast engines became synonymous with election results that inflated by bringing criminals out of town to pick candidate machines repeatedly. The city's election on March 27, 1934 (dramatized in the Robert Altman film 1996 Kansas City ) resulted in nine deaths.
Machine loss
The power of Tom Pendergast was undermined by health ailments and endeavors by the federal treasury department along with local reform leaders, limited by Tom pleading guilty to tax evasion on May 24, 1939. The remains of the machine remained until the 1950s. His biographers have summed up the uniqueness of Pendergast:
Personality
Walt Disney
Walt Disney moved to Kansas City with his family in the early 20th century. He attended weekend classes at the Kansas City Art Institute and is said to have been inspired to make a loving portrayal of rats after seeing one in his office in Kansas City. After World War I, Disney made his first animated effort at Laugh-O-Gram Studio in Kansas City.
Joyce Clyde Hall
J.C. Hall founded the Hallmark Cards greeting card company with his brother Rollie in the early 20th century, by selling Valentine's Day cards. He expanded the company headquarters into the Crown Center shortly before he died in 1982.
TW & amp; A
Charles Lindbergh helps lure Transcontinental & amp; Western Airline (TW & amp; A) - then Trans World Airlines (TWA) - to deploy its corporate headquarters in Kansas City, due to its downtown location. During the later part of the Golden Age of Aviation, the 1930s and 1940s, TWA became known as "The Airline Run by Flyers." With about 300 employees before World War II, the airline eventually hired more than 20,000 people from the metropolitan area.
William T. Kemper
William T. Kemper became a scion for a strong financial family that has controlled interest from two of the city's largest banks, the Commerce Trust Company (now Commerce Bancshares) and City Center Bank (later City National Bank, now UMB Financial Corporation). The family has influenced financial efforts throughout Missouri and Kansas, including Kemper Arena and Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. William became president of Commerce. One of his sons, R. Crosby Kemper, controls United Missouri Banks while his other son, James Madison Kemper, takes over the Trade.
William Rockhill Nelson
William Rockhill Nelson founded Kansas City Star in 1880, and will eventually take over its main competitor, the Kansas City Times. Nelson is a major supporter of the Democratic Party and the mover of the city. At the urging of his paper, the city built the Memorial Hall in 1899 to attract the 1900 National Democratic Convention. The burning hall in the early 1900s was rebuilt in 90 days in time for worship services. Nelson abandoned the provision that his house was eventually demolished to make Nelson-Atkins Art Gallery.
J. C. Nichols
Beginning in 1906, developer J. C. Nichols created an upscale community planned to be called the Country Club District, located south of Brush Creek. This development is famous for the beautiful Ward Parkway, a wide, divided and well-maintained boulevard that gently gliding north and south through the neighborhood. The Parkway is lined with several large and interesting homes. In the 1920s, Nichols created Country Club Plaza, a shopping and neighborhood district alongside Brush Creek that mimics the city of Seville, Spain. "The Plaza" is the world's first shopping center designed specifically to accommodate buyers who come by car. In 2008, this place is still one of Kansas City's most popular shopping and eating places - day and night. Every Thanksgiving night, a crowd of Kansas Citorians gather there to witness the traditional Lighting Plaza, which begins the Christmas shopping season.
Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman, who was born in Lamar, Missouri, but raised in Jackson County, started a habit in downtown Kansas City after World War I. When his business failed, he asked the Pendergast for a job and injured the Jackson County east judge (in fact, the position of the commissioner area). Truman was later promoted to Senator. He was one of the few politicians who attended Tom Pendergast's funeral in 1945, just days after he became Vice President.
R. A. Long
In 1873, Robert A. Long - born in Shelby County, Kentucky in 1850 - moved to Columbus, Kansas and with a friend and cousin, Victor Bell and Robert White, started a straw business. Their business does not work, but there seems to be a need for wood so that all three form R. A. Long & amp; Company. After White's death, the two remaining founders formed the Long-Bell Lumber Company in 1887 and the company's headquarters moved to Kansas City. It became a very lucrative business, and made Long a millionaire. Other milestones achieved by Long include being a wood baron, developer, investor, newspaper owner, and philanthropist. He built the towns of Longville, Louisiana and Longview, Washington. In 1907 he built R.A. Long Building, the first steel-framed skyscraper, in Kansas City. The building was purchased by City National Bank & amp; Trust Company in 1940. Long is a founding member and president of the Liberty Memorial Association who obtained funds for memorials. James M. Kemper served as treasurer, and president of the bank. In 1911 built Corinthian Hall, a house of 72 rooms; then in 1914, he built Longview Farm.
18th Street 18th Street & amp; Vine
One of the most dramatic developments of the era was the development of the inner-city environment of 18th Street and Vine.
KC Monarchs
The Kansas City Monarchs are played at the Municipal Stadium and are one of the main baseball teams in Negro Leagues with championship teams and stars like Satchel Paige, Jackie Robinson and John Jordan "Buck" O'Neil.
Kansas City Jazz
With Kansas City not enforcing liquor laws and clubs allowed to stay open all night, musicians began the evening jam session after performing in a large band of structured performances. Kansas City's voice is hard-drives, riff-bass and blues oriented. This is the environment in which Charlie Parker developed in the early years before heading to New York City and laid the foundations for bebop.
KC style barbecue
Henry Perry first introduced a Memphis-style barbeque to the city from his restaurant in the 18th Street and Vine area in the early 20th century. Arthur Bryant then added more molasses to the recipe when he took over Perry's restaurant. The Gates Bar-B-Q opened in 1946, by George W. Gates, is the only family-owned barbecue restaurant left in the area. It's also the only sauce and product manufacturer based in Kansas City. The family-owned business is still owned and operated by Ollie W. Gates. In 1986, Rich Davis sold KC Masterpiece Bar-B-Q Sauce to Kingsford's charcoal division from Clorox.
Crossroads
The period between the 1940s and the 1970s was an intoxicating moment when Kansas City was sometimes regarded as a crossroads of the world. This was triggered by the original Presidency of Harry Truman's hometown from 1945 to 1953, followed immediately by Kansan Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961. From the 1930s and part of this period TWA, under the leadership of Jack Frye, Paul E. Richter and Howard Hughes as shareholders, headquartered in Kansas City. The city is planning to turn the cosmopolitan center into a gateway to the world. But the great expectations of that era are easing with the TWA depletion.
1940s
After the fall of the Pendergast machine, reformer John B. Gage was elected mayor in 1940 and L. P. Cookingham was appointed city manager. Gage was elected mayor of three times and served until 1946, while City Manager Cookingham served until 1959. The Gage and Cookingham governments sought to "cleanse" Kansas City from a corrupt past and enforce "just" governmental practices and utilize the municipal services of the employees.
The war effort brings defensive work to Kansas City, which still suffers from the Great Depression, including Pratt & Whitney machine factory. Other weapon equipment in Kansas City, Kansas, and Jackson County east provides additional work for the region. This is a relatively prosperous time for the city. In 1945, Harry Truman, a resident of Jackson County became President of the United States, following the death of Franklin Roosevelt.
Annexation
In the mid-1940s, the governments of Gage and Cookingham began to annex land to expand the size of the city. The city increased its geographical size to five times its size in 1940, with annexation programs continuing through the 1970s. After World War II, Kansas City, like almost all other metropolitan areas, experienced a significant low density expansion, triggered mainly by movements from outside the region as well as by population shifts from downtown to the suburbs. While other cities are shrinking, newly annexed land helps Kansas City sustain its population. Growth since 1970, however, has been limited and often negative, despite the modest population growth in the 1990s.
1950s
Since the 1950s, Kansas City has undergone a transition and is trying to unleash its Cow Town image. It started when Kansas City was at the peak of national attention with the back-to-back Presidency of Harry Truman and Kansas's favorite-child Dwight D. Eisenhower. This period event saw the heyday of Roy A. Roberts' influence as editor of the Kansas City Star.
Changes began in the early 1950s with a sharp decline in railways due to competition from car and jet travel. Union Station, which had mastered the busiest second rail junction (next to Chicago), began to decline rapidly. The Great Flood of 1951 destroyed the Kansas City Stockyard in the West Bottoms. The stockyards (who are also second to Chicago in size) have never returned to their full glory as stockyards moved from urban centers and association. In 1955, Kansas City formally started its relationship with major league sports when the Philadelphia Athletics moved into town, becoming a Kansas City Athletic, playing at the City Stadium.
1960s
The year 1960 was marked by the period of many projects coupled with rapid city decay from many urban environments. During this period, many historic buildings were demolished to serve as parking lots, and office buildings. This area is mainly for business rather than for daily city life.
During the decay of this inner city, Kansas City began to annex the land and expand its territory. In the process, Kansas City eventually became one of the largest cities in the United States-wise at 318 square miles (824 km 2 ), while the population declined by 15,000 between 1950 and 2000. It is still unusual to found cattle and corn fields at the extreme end of Kansas City. In 2000, Kansas City was ranked as the 21st largest city in the United States in terms of area, while it ranks 40th in the population.
In 1967, Kansas City Chief participated in the first Super Bowl, losing to the Green Bay Packers. That same year, Charlie Finley got permission to move Kansas City Athletics out of the Municipal Stadium in 1923. Kansas City responded to this development by approving the issue of bonds to build the Truman Sports Complex in the extreme suburbs of extreme suburbs by the intersection of Interstates 70 and 435. Development the complex was so successful that much of the league's premier league and football matches had been designed according to the Truman Complex master plan, and most had been designed by Kansas City architects.
Also in 1967, work began at the Crown Center complex located around the Hallmark Cards headquarters. Another development in the 1960s was the approval of a bond issue to move the city's main airport from Kansas City Downtown Airport to TWA Kansas City Overhaul Base in what was formerly called Mid-Continent International Airport - now called Kansas City International Airport (but called in the baggage with original abbreviation MCI). Although Kansas City continued to flourish in the 1960s, the city experienced many heartbreaks, fires and 1968 riots that followed Martin Luther King's assassination. White flights continue on a grand scale, ironically, to negotiate cities further than before the Civil Rights Movement.
1970s
The first half of the 1970s was dominated by an ambitious Kansas urban renewal project that was on display when it hosted the 1976 Republican National Convention. Although these projects did not bring people back to town, they moved many historic buildings for more parking , and more office structures, as well as public housing projects.
New arena and team
After Charlie Finley moved Kansas City Athletics to Oakland, California, Missouri Senator Stuart Symington threatened to abolish the antitrust professional baseball release. Major League Baseball responded by giving the expansion team to Kansas City who started playing in 1969 under Ewing Kauffman. The Royals had won the season in 1971 and moved into their new home at the Truman Sports Complex at the Royals Stadium (now Kauffman Stadium) in 1973, starting a decade where they appeared in the World Series twice (won once) and won six Americans Title of Western League division. In 1972, the Kansas City Chief played their first game at the new Arrowhead Stadium. Ironically, the Chiefs football franchise, which has defined Kansas City in the 1960s and intoxicating days at Municipal Stadium, suffered a slump, had only two seasons of victory between 1974 and 1988 and participated in only one playoff game from 1972 to 1989.
In 1972, Kansas City captivated the National Basketball Association team into the city, Royals Cincinnati, with promises of building a new indoor arena. Kemper Arena, which was the first major project by architect Helmut Jahn, was built in 18 months from 1973 to 1974 at a former location of Kansas City Stockyards in West Bottoms. Its construction is financed by public bonds, donating land from storage, donations from American Royal and R. Crosby Kemper Sr. The arena is considered an architectural gem because of how fast it can be built, and the fact that with external support, there is no obstacle to seeing the line. Arena is seen as the highest achievement to enthrall the 1976 Republican Convention. The Arena also produced Kansas City which was awarded the expansion team of the National Hockey League, Kansas City Scouts, which began playing in 1974.
KCI Airport
The Kansas City Downtown Airport, built initially during Pendergast under the Missouri River in the north of downtown, is convenient. However, it has no room for jet expansion and landing and takeoff should avoid a 200-foot (61 m) cliff, and the Quality Hill neighborhood on its southern edge. TWA, headquartered in Kansas City at the time, has a base overhaul with a landing strip surrounded by 15 miles (24 km) open farmland just north of downtown in rural Platte County, Missouri. The airport is listed on the map as Mid-Continent International Airport.
In 1966 voters approved the issuance of a $ 150 million bond to move the city's main airport to an expanded Central Continent. However, the city did not annex the area, otherwise the small town of Platte City, Missouri annexed the airport. After a series of court battles, Kansas City eventually annexed the airport and architectural firm selected by Kivett and Myers to design a dedicated, dedicated airport in 1972. Almost all airlines are concentrated in the old facility moved to a new airport, renamed Kansas City International Airport to be more familiar with the city. International appointments are applied due to jets at airports traveling to and from Mexico. The abbreviation "MCI" is fixed because it is an existing airport and already registered in the navigation chart.
On November 7, 2017, two weeks after KCI's 45th birthday, Kansas City Missouri voters massively approved a new, privately funded and built terminal at KCI. New Terminal will replace the existing "Terminal Leaf Clover" and is expected to open in late 2021.
River Quay
One of the most tragic moments during this period occurred when gangster wars broke out among members of the Kansas City Mafia over the control of the newly developed (and growing) River Quay (and developing) entertainment district at Stardust Resort & Casino in Las Vegas). In the process, several mobsters were killed and three buildings blown up in River Quay, effectively ending its function as a Kansas City entertainment center. The battle was to end the Vegas mass casino control era.
The Quay River in the Town Market area along the Missouri River at the northern end of Downtown Kansas City, has been a urban renewal project of the 1970s to offer a more family-friendly entertainment complex based on the city's jazz heritage, replacing companies along 12th Street that have deteriorated into crime centers , drugs and prostitution. The battle for mob skimming in Las Vegas is highlighted in the book Casino and is based on the movie by Nicholas Pileggi.
Big storm
Although the Kansas City area, located in Tornado Alley, is usually hit with at least one and often more tornadoes each year, two major non-tornadic storms have a profound effect on the city. On September 12, 1977, after a wet summer, 16 inches (410 millimeters) of rain fell in Kansas City, causing massive flooding throughout the region. The most dramatic floods occur in the Country Club Plaza neighborhood, along Brush Creek. The storm killed 25 people, and caused nearly $ 100 million in property damage. On June 4, 1979, a powerful thunderstorm that moved through the city that night tore down the roof of the Kemper Arena. Since the area did not hold events that night, no one was hurt in the facility. Initial reports indicate that the collapse was the result of the explosion. However, later investigations revealed that torrential rains from the storm had been collected on the roof of the arena, to the point where supporters were unable to handle combined water weight coupled with strong winds that shook the outer skeleton. The arena was repaired and reopened in the early 1980s.
The main market small leagues
Kansas City's grandiose dreams began to dwindle in the 1980s when TWA and major league hockey and basketball teams went and the NCAA ceased to hold the Final Four games in town. The Kansas City Scouts can not create the same buzz as fellow NHL franchise, St. Louis Blues, and moved to Denver in 1976 to become Colorado Rockies (who later became New Jersey Devils in 1982). In 1986, Kansas City Kings moved to Sacramento, California to become the Sacramento Kings. Kansas City began accepting the fact that it was one of the smallest markets with a major league team, ranking # 31 based on the size of the television market. The period since 1980 has been marked by the substantial issues of bonds by the city to protect its historic buildings, such as Union Station and Liberty Memorial, as well as to make major improvements to the Kansas City International Airport and Truman Sports Complex. Kansas City is now experiencing the largest building boom in the city center since the Pendergast era.
1980s
Case desegregation
The only major divisive problem in Kansas City in the 1980s and 1990s was a three-decade case of school desegregation, costing millions of dollars, debated before the US Supreme Court and featured in a profile in the CBS news magazine < i> 60 Minutes about good intentions become chaotic. In 1970, the Kansas City school district encountered black and white flights and the large middle class left it with a smaller tax base and a severe shortage of money. The district is increasingly reliant on federal funding and is unable to resist major federal grants that require it to integrate more quickly. "In the end, the desegregation reached in Kansas City is too little and comes very late, after the district loses most of its white students to the suburbs," said historian Peter Moran.
The legal case began in 1977 when Kansas City, Missouri School District sued its neighboring districts for funds to help delegate its schools. In subsequent court battles, Kansas City's own school system was placed under the guidance of federal court judges; The judge then went on to order tax increases to improve the quality of schools when the system built its magnet school network, including two secondary schools, Lincoln College Preparatory Academy and Paseo Academy. The battle dragged across the state of Missouri when schools outside the metropolitan area argued that they did not have to pay for Kansas City regional schools. Further, Kansas City residents are angry over the plan to bus students an hour or more each day in the vast city area.
At the height of the debate, the Kansas City, Missouri district spends more than $ 11,700 per student - the most from the country's major public school districts. Teacher salaries soar, teacher-student ratios are 12 or 13 to 1 and some schools are equipped with Olympic-size swimming pools, nature reserves and UN models with simultaneous translation capabilities. Kansas City, Missouri School District hopes to stop white flights to achieve 35% white enrollment in almost every school. Conversely, over the life of cases, minority enrollment has increased from 67% to 84%. In 1995, the US Supreme Court ruled in the case of Missouri v. Jenkins that the court has exceeded their authority in this case. The case is still running again through the courts, and in 2003, a federal court judge ultimately liberated Kansas City from judicial oversight. Hyatt Hyatt Regency
Hyatt Regency Disaster
One of the greatest performances of the rebirth of the Kansas City metropolitan city in this era is the Crown Center, built by Hallmark Cards, headquartered in the complex by Union Station. The latest addition to the complex is the Hyatt Regency Hotel, where on July 17, 1981, the street of the building collapsed during a tea dance, which has been set up to bring back the wonders of Kansas City jazz. The collapse killed 114 people (making it the most deadly structural collapse in US history at the time), and wounding more than 200 others. The Kansas City Star, caught red-handed after Kemper Arena collapsed, hired a structural engineer after the Hyatt disaster and eventually won the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage.
Champions of the World
The Kansas City Royals helped boost the municipal spirit in 1980, when they played their first World Series (where they were favored to win but lost to Philadelphia Phillies four games for two), and then in 1985 at "I-70 Series" with rivals St. Louis Cardinals intrastate. 1985, the Royals won the West League Division of the Americas for the second season in a row and sixth time in ten years. The team improved their record to 91-71 on their pitching power, led by the award-winning Bret Saberhagen Cy Young Award winner. In the playoffs, the Royals went on to win the American League Championship Series for the second time in its history. Both series were won in seven games after losing three of the first four games.
The Championship series against the Cardinals, where the Royals are seeded, is forever remembered by an exploding umpire call: one that makes the Royals run 4th, and an "unexpected appeal" in Game Six by referee Don Denkinger that St. The fans of Louis claim to lead to the Royals that bind the game. In fact, the dirty ball dropped by Jack Clark has as much or more to do with an incoming Royals rally. Apart from that, St. Louis had no answer for Saberhagen in the following game when Royal won their first world championship of the Cardinals in Game 7, 11-0, and the series of four games to three.
The Royals return to Fall Classic in 2014 lost the 7th Game to the San Francisco Giants with a binding run just 90 yards away. In 2015, they come back once more and this time beat the New York Mets in 5 games. The Royals won Game 1 in extra round, tying for the longest game in World Series history. The Royals also won Game 2 with a full game by Johnny Cueto, which allowed only one unassigned run and two hits. With the series shifting to New York, Mets won Game 3 with a home run by David Wright and Curtis Granderson. The Royals came from behind to win Game 4 after an error by Daniel Murphy causing a save to be blown by Jeurys Familia. Game 5 also goes into extra rounds, in which Christian ColÃÆ'³n bench players drive ahead of the race for the Royals, who snatched the series. Salvador PÃÆ' Â © rez has been named the Most Valuable Player of the World Series.
The 1990s
Kansas City grew 6,399 people during the 1990s, ending two decades of population loss. Emanuel Cleaver became the first African-American mayor in 1991, before being elected to Congress in 2004. The opening of the American Jazz Museum, the Negro League Baseball Museum, and the Improvement of Union Station as Science City helped recall the early 20th century in Kansas City.
The suburbs of Kansas City North became home to the first casino facility in Missouri when Harrah's North Kansas City opened in September 1994. In 1996, Kansas City received the Major League Soccer franchise, Kansas City Wiz (later, Kansas City) Wizards 1997. -2010 and now known as Sporting Kansas City). The decade closed with Kansas City selecting the first female mayor, Kay Waldo Barnes in 1999.
21st century
Population Change
Kansas City City, Missouri's population has steadily risen over 24,000 people between the 2000 and 2010 Census to just under 460,000 inhabitants. And by 2017, the city has grown to a population of nearly 480,000 people. The Metropolitan Area Population is expected to grow from 2.1 Million in 2010 to more than 2.7 Million by 2040. However, the urban core population continues to decline significantly, while the downtown has increased dramatically.
The birth of Downtown Kansas CIty
In recent years, the Kansas City area has undergone extensive rebuilding, with over $ 6 billion in repairs to the downtown area on the Missouri side. One of the main objectives is to attract conventions and tourist dollars, office workers, and residents to downtown KCMO. Among the projects including Power rebuilding & amp; Light District, located in the area around Power & amp; Light Building (former headquarters of Kansas City Power & Light Company, now based in the north end of the district), becomes a retail and entertainment district; and the Sprint Center, an 18,500-capacity arena opened in the district in 2007, funded by a 2004 voting initiative involving taxes on car and hotel rentals, and is designed to meet stadium specifications for future NBA or NHL possibilities. franchise. Kemper Arena, which was replaced by the Sprint Center, fell into collapse and sold to private developers. In 2017, the arena was transformed into a sports complex under the name Mosiac Arena. The Kauffman Performing Arts Center opened in 2011 providing a modern new home for KC Orchestra and Ballet. By 2015, the hotel's Hyatt-Convention 800 is announced for a site next to the Performing Arts Center & amp; Bartle Hall. Construction is expected to begin in early 2018 with Loews as operator.
The urban housing population of KCMO has increased fourfold in the last 10 years, and that number is growing. Growing from nearly 4,000 residents in the early 2000s to nearly 30,000 by 2017. Kansas City, Missouri's Downtown now ranks sixth as the fastest city center in America with a population expected to grow by over 40% by 2022. Conversions of office buildings such as P & amp; L, Commerce Bank Tower, and others into residential spaces and hotels have helped meet demand. New apartment complexes such as One, Two and Three Lights, RM West, 503 Main, and others begin to reshape the Kansas City skyline. Strong demand has led to occupancy rates at 90% high.
While the downtown redential population has exploded, office population has declined significantly from the early 2000s to the mid-2010s. AMC and other top employers moved their operations to a modern suburban office building. High Office Vacancy has penetrated into the city center leading to the neglect of many office buildings. In the mid-2010s many office buildings were converted into housing and vacations Class A dropped by 12% by 2017. Swiss Re, Virgin Mobile, AutoAlert, and others have begun to move operations to downtown Kansas City from the suburbs and towns, an expensive coastal city.
Transportation
The area has undergone additional development through various transportation projects, including improvements to the Grandview Triangle, which intersects Interstate 435 and 470, and Route 71 US, a road that has long been famous for fatal accidents.
In July 2005, the Kansas City Regional Transport Authority (KCATA) launched the first fast bus transit line in Kansas City, Metro Area Express (MAX), which connects River Market, Downtown, Union Station, Crown Center and Country Club Plaza. KCATA continues to expand MAX with additional routes on Prospect Ave, Troost Ave, and Independence Ave.
In 2013, construction begins on a two-mile tramway in downtown Kansas City (funded by a $ 102 million ballot initiative passed in 2012) running between River Market and Union Station, which began operations in May 2016. By 2017 , the voters approved the formation of TDD to expand the tram line south of 3.5 miles from Union Station to Campus Volker UMKC. Additionally, by 2017, the Port Authority of KC commenced an engineering study for a Harbor Center-funded Streetcar expansion into the north to Berkley Riverfront Park. City Wide, voter support for rail projects continues to grow with many light rail projects in work.
In 2016, Jackson County, Missouri obtained unused tracks as part of a long-term commuter railway plan. For now, the path is being converted into a trail while local officials negotiate with railroads for access to the tracks in Downtown Kansas City.
On November 7, 2017, Kansas City, Missouri voters strongly approved a new terminal at Kansas City International Airport with a 75% to 25% margin. The New Single Terminal will replace 3 "Leaves of Clover" at KCI Airport and is expected to open in 2021.
World Champion Once Again
In 2010, both Arrowhead and Kauffman stadiums at the Truman Sports Complex received massive renovations as expanions. In 2014 and 2015, Kansas City Royals made it to the MLB World Series, winning in 2015.
See also
- Timeline Kansas City, Missouri history
References
Further reading
- Brown, A. Theodore, and Lyle W. Dorsett. K.C. A History of Kansas City, Missouri (1978)
- Brown, A. Theodore. Frontier Community: Kansas City until 1870 (1963)
- Brown, A. Theodore. Reform politics; the Kansas City city administration, 1925-1950 (1958)
- Dorsett, Lyle W. "Kansas City and the New Deal," in John Braeman et al. eds. The New Deal: Volume Two - State and Local Level (1975) pp 407-19
- Dorsett, Lyle W. Pendergast Machine - Kansas City (1968)
- Ferrell, Robert H. Truman and Pendergast (University of Missouri Press, 1999).
- Glaab, Charles N. Kansas City and the Railroads: Community Policy in Regional Metropolis Growth (1962) online
- Larsen, Lawrence H. and Nancy J. Hulston, "Criminal Aspect of Pendergast Machines," Missouri History Reviews (91 # 2) (1997) pp 168-180.
- Larsen, Lawrence H.; Nancy J. Hulston (1997). Pendergast! . U of Missouri Press. Ã,
- L'Heureux, Marie-Alice. "Creative, Urban, and Race Class: Shaping City Revitalization in Kansas City, Missouri," Journal of Urban History (2015) 41 # 2 pp 245-260
- Matlin, John S. Party machine of the 1920s and 1930s: Tom Pendergast and The Kansas City Democratic machine. "(PhD Dissertation, University of Birmingham, UK, 2009) online: Bibliography at pp 277-92.
- Shortridge, James R. Kansas City and How It Grew, 1822-2011 (University Press of Kansas, 2012) 248 pages; historical geography quote and text search
External links
- Kansas City history database from Kansas City Public Library
- Sween, Kansas City Star's 125th Birthday
- " The History of Kansas City and Wyandotte County Kansas ." August 2000.
- Vintage Kansas City.com
- Murrel Bland, Wyandotte County History
- William G. Cutler, " State History of Kansas ", Kansas City, Kansas.
- TWA history
- Sheraton Suites Country Club Plaza
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