Three women wearing large picture hats and skirts sweeping the ground appear in the post-card scene of Scarritt Point in North Terrace Park. Heim's Brewery, in the right foreground, appears to be almost as tall as the cliff beside it. The park, one of the oldest in the city, contained nearly 300 acres of land and was acquired in nine different tracts between the years 1899 and 1920, at a total cost of $1,032,000. Cliff Drive, perhaps the outstanding feature of the park, takes visitors along a 6 1/2-mile winding road through the park and along the bluffs, affording a view of the river, the Northeast Industrial District and Clay County. North Terrace Park recently was renamed Kessler Park honoring George E. Kessler, who was largely responsible for much of the early planning of Kansas City's park and boulevard system. Scarritt Point was named for the Rev. Nathan Scarritt, whose farm covered most of the area between St. John and the bluff and Scarritt Point and Van Brunt. Kansas City Times, July 21, 1973.
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