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Kansas City Art Institute founded, later attended by Walt Disney; First overhead electric trolleys in the US used here. [5] 1889 The city of Kansas City formed by merger of Westport and City of Kansas. [1] Kansas City Public Library building opens. [11] 1890 - Population: 132,716. [5] 1892 - Court House built. [5] 1893 City Hall built. [5]
The first college football game played in Kansas was the 1890 Kansas vs. Baker football game played in Baldwin City. Baker won 22–9. [ 67 ] The first night football game west of the Mississippi was played in Wichita, Kansas in 1905 between Cooper College (now called Sterling College ) and Fairmount College (now Wichita State University ). [ 68 ]
1860 1912 1858–1864 Medical Department of University of the Pacific, 1864–1870 discontinued, ... 1897 Kansas City (Kan) College of Medicine and Surgery, ...
Jackson, David W. Kansas City Chronicles: An Up-To-Date History (Arcadia, 2010). Mallea, Amahia K. A river in the city of fountains: an environmental history of Kansas City and the Missouri River (University Press of Kansas, 2018). Matlin, John S. Political Party Machines of the 1920s and 1930s: Tom Pendergast and the Kansas City Democratic ...
The town of Kansas, Missouri, was incorporated on June 1, 1850, reincorporated and renamed City of Kansas on March 28, 1853, and renamed Kansas City in 1889.The area straddles the border between Missouri and Kansas at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers, and was considered a good place to settle.
West Port's greatest prosperity came between 1854 and 1860. The Civil War brought many skirmishes between pro- and anti-slavery groups in the area, and the Battle of Westport was in October 1864. [6] After the war, trade fell off sharply and never recovered, and by 1899, Kansas City annexed Westport. [1]
The Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad was the first railroad to cross Missouri starting in Hannibal in the northeast and going to St. Joseph, Missouri, in the northwest.It is said to have carried the first letter to the Pony Express on April 3, 1860, from a train pulled behind the locomotive Missouri.
1860 1872 Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway: Terminal Railroad of St. Louis: ... Kansas City, Kaw Valley and Western Railway (KV&W, KVW) Kansas City Public Service ...