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Title
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Oak Grove Banner: Sni-a-Bar History
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Description
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Reprint from the Oak Grove Banner newspaper of February 22, 1902 about the history of Sni-a-Bar Township in northeastern Jackson County, "organized May 5, 1834." Containing 5,000 people in 1902 including "the towns of Oak Grove [originally called Lickskillet] and Blue Springs" and Grain Valley, Missouri as well as many farms and forests.
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Date
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2001
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Old Westport Landing
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Description
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Autobiographical article about Father Bernard Donnelly's (a reprint from the Kansas City Journal of Commerce from January 1, 1876) experiences on arriving in Independence and Westport Landing (later Kansas City) in 1845. Description of various Santa Fe traders and other citizens and anecdotes about them back to the 1840 murder of Don Antonio Chavez by a "certain Dr. Fontenelle."
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Date
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2001
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Object Type
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Magazine Article