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Title: Westport Road
Description: View looking southwest from 530 Westport Road from Mill Street.
Date: 1948-06-07
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Broadway at Westport Road
Description: View looking north on Broadway Boulevard from Westport Road. Shows automobiles and an unidentified young man standing in the median.
Date: 1948-06-07
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Toll Gate to Westport: Marking of Historic Site a Bicentannial Project for Society
Description: Article about the Jackson County Historical Society's project for the "old Turnpike Route," mentioning the following streets involved: Grand Avenue, Main Street, 27th Street, 25th Street, 15th Street, 29th Street, Baltimore Avenue, 30th Street, Washington Street, Broadway Boulevard, Hunter Avenue, 2nd Street, and 31st Street.
Date: 1975-11
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Traveling the Jackson County Pike with a Resident of Old Westport
Description: History of Broadway Boulevard, the first rock road in Jackson County in 1870, from the Missouri River to "Westport Avenue," as told by Virginia Harris Thornton, including illustrations of the Tivoli Gardens, Redemptorist Church, etc.
Date: 1946-02-12
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: The Revitalization of Main Street
Description: Article about the various organizations involved in the "revitalization" of Midtown business district along Main Street from 31st to 47th Streets, with photos.
Date: 1980-06
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Is 39th Street Coming Back?
Description: Article about the signs of both decline and coming back of the 39th & Main business district.
Date: 1976-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Aerial View of Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Aerial photograph of one square mile of Kansas City, Missouri showing the area around 39th Street and Main Street. Westport Branch Library is visible. Map identified from set as Section 20, Township 49N, Range 33W, S-76.
Date: 1964-04
Object Type: Map

Title: Map of the Vicinity of Kansas City in Kansas and Missouri
Description: Street map of the two Kansas Cities. Only main streets are named. Map includes surrounding areas, among which are Harlem, Independence, Randolph City, Westport, Shawnee, Argentine, Rosedale, and Quindaro. Townships are indicated by color. At top of map, "Presented by the 'Kansas City Times,' January 1st, 1888."
Date: 1888
Object Type: Map

Title: Returning Gillham Road to All Its Historical Glory
Description: Article describes the efforts of Dona Boley and several neighborhood groups to envision the future of Gillham Road. The Gillham Road Improvement Project (GRIP) intends to restore Gillham Road, from Armour Road to Brush Creek.
Date: 2004-11
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: A Letter from Daniel Geary
Description: Reminiscences by Daniel Geary from 1915 about the radical changes in the topography in the Town of Kansas around 1856-1859, as its early streets were built and hills graded for settlement. Description of Edmond O'Flaherty as the city's first city engineer in 1857 (in charge of much of the street grading), assisted by the author of the article, Daniel Geary.
Date: 1970-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Recollections of Old Times
Description: Mention of the creek in the description of Grand Avenue and Main Street in 1852.
Date: 1971-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Southwest Trafficway
Description: View along Southwest Trafficway near Westport Road. Several billboards are shown.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Residences on Southwest Trafficway
Description: View of homes along Southwest Trafficway near Westport Road, including a woman walking along the sidewalk.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1800-1908
Description: Biographical sketch of Patrick Moore (1839-1907), a building contractor in Westport and Kansas City. Native of Ireland emigrating to Kansas City in 1880 as a street paver.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Locust Street
Description: Locust Street, curving northwest around the Westport High School campus, looking north across Gillham Road and 39th Street. The dark brick house is across the street from the Notre Dame de Sion school on Locust.
Date: 1925~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Plains
Description: Detailed description of the extension of Grand Avenue south to Westport from Kansas City in 1857, "decidedly one of the handsomest and most attractive streets in the State--and is evidently destined to become one of the principal business streets of the city," passing through McGee's Addition.
Date: 1858
Object Type: Book

Title: Map of the Vicinity of Kansas City in Jackson County, Missouri
Description: Map showing major streets and railroad lines in area bounded by the Missouri and Kansas Rivers, Westport, and Independence. Includes townships. Red ink markings added at an unknown date. In red on the top: "Compliments of J. M. Ford & Co., Brokers, Real Estate & Loans, Office 624 Wyandotte Street, Kansas City, MO."
Date: 1885
Object Type: Map

Title: A Few Interesting Facts About Kansas City Streets
Description: Article looks at some Kansas City streets that run east-west as well as some north-south streets and gives the names today compared to the names used in early Kansas City. Also included in the article is a section called "How'd It Get That Name?" which gives the history of how some streets were named. James A. Tharp has compiled more than 200 pages of research on this topic and this is available at the Mid-Continent Genealogy and Local History Library in Independence, Missouri, where Mr. Tharp is a librarian. This article includes extracts from Mr. Tharp's compilations on this topic.
Date: 2005
Object Type: Magazine Article

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