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Title: Memories of Old Westport
Description: Description of the store "erected by Colonel Albert G. Boone" in Westport as the first brick building west of Independence.
Date: 1924-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Best Known Building in Westport
Description: Article tells the history of the building currently occupied by Kelly's Westport Inn from the platting of the Town of West Port in 1836 through 1904, when W. W. Meriwether sold the property to John and Jake Wiedenmann.
Date: 2008-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Westport Antiquity Sweepstakes, or Who Really Has the Oldest Building in Westport?
Description: Present-day Kelly's was Boone's Trading Post in Westport, built in 1850 by the Ewing brothers, William Ewing and George Ewing.
Date: 1977-04
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Westport Antiquity Sweepstakes or Who Really Has the Oldest Building in Westport?
Description: Article about the date of construction for the "Ewing-Boone" building, also known as Boone's Trading Post.
Date: 1977-04
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Captain Joseph Parks: Chief of the Shawnee Indians
Description: Description of the building at 500 Westport Road, said to be the oldest in Jackson County, Missouri, bought by Shawnee Indian Captain Joseph Parks from John Calvin McCoy in 1836.
Date: 1969-06
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Just to Keep the Record Straight
Description: Article about the 1850 completion date for the building of Boone's Trading Post with information on Westport pioneers Major John Campbell, Albert Boone, and Captain Joseph Parks, et al.
Date: 1974-09
Object Type: Magazine Article