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James Cash Penney, (1875-1971), founder of J.C. Penney; his farm home has been moved to town and is a museum. Zack Wheat, (1888-1972) National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum baseball player for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Penney High School is a member of the Kansas City Interscholastic Conference for athletics and music. The girls track and field team won State championships for five years running, from 2007 through 2011, and was runner up in 2014 and 2015. Girls basketball has won a 2A championships in 1977 and in 2008.
The building was constructed in 1929 as a warehouse for the J.C. Penney retail chain. It occupied the building until 1954, after which it was donated to the University of Missouri as a location for an education center, which never materialized.
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The company was incorporated under the new name, J. C. Penney Company. In 1916, he began to expand the chain east of the Mississippi River, and during the 1920s, the Penney company expanded nationwide, with 120 stores in 1920, most of which were still in the west. By 1924, Penney reported income of more than $1 million annually. [4]
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Across JC Penney Drive from the two commercial buildings is a small park, in which stands the J. C. Penney House, now a historic house museum. It is a small 1-1/2 story frame house, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. It was probably built about 1900, and was home to the Penney family from 1902 to 1909.