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Title
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Battle of Westport Drawing
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Description
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Photograph of drawing of battle scene, shows the Harris House in the background.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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The Battle of Westport
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Description
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Photo of and from the Harris House, used as a Civil War headquarters for General Curtis.
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Date
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1906
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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A Brief History of Old Westport
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Description
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Originally published in The Kansas City Star in March 1933, this is part three, the conclusion. It states that "by the early 40's the number of residents had grown to 2,500, and by 1848 or 1849 Westport's prominence as a commercial center had become generally recognized." Article talks about the first post office, first churches, first public cemetery, "Parties Lasted Into Morning Hours," ''Decimated by Cholera in 1849,'' dress and appearance of the "well-dressed man," and a list of names of early residents and their trade or business.
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Date
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2004
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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The Autobiography of a Westport Pioneer
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Description
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Account of Westport, starting in 1854, by one of its early settlers, Anna E. Charles Krueger, Jr., or Anna Krueger. Includes descriptions of various disasters befalling the area, including an earthquake in the 1860s, the Battle of Westport, and the 1878 grasshopper plague, along with more domestic events of the 1800s.
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Date
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1965-05
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Kansas City....The Way We Were
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Description
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Photo of mostly elderly people, possibly veterans of the Battle of Westport, in front of the Westport Library.
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Date
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1981
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Pioneer Life in Southwest Missouri
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Description
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Chapter of the book about the construction of the "two-story brick mansion" of John B. Wornall, "the most pretentious of anything in that section," just before and during the Civil War, including a description of the Battle of Westport near the house.
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Date
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1929
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Harris House Hotel
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Description
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Postcard of the Harris House Hotel in Westport.
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Jonathan B. Fuller
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Description
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Copy of a handwritten letter by Reverend Jonathan Fuller in the aftermath of the Battle of Westport.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
