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Boone's Trading Post
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Transcription from the article: He reasoned that the building had been built in the early 1850s rather than the established date of 1837 and that it had been built by the Ewing Brothers rather than by Joseph Parks. Transactions for the property and building were the following: John Calvin McCoy sold lot to Joseph Parks, December 16, 1836, and sold back to McCoy July 13, 1837, for $360. Samuel C. Roby, Indian trader, the next buyer on February 22, 1847, for $700. Then sold to George W. Ewing on July 27, 1848, for $1500. Ewing sold the tract to Albert Gallatin Boone on January 6, 1854, for $7000, which would indicate that a new building had been built. Next buyer was Robert Campbell on September 6, 1859, for $7000. Robert Campbell sold the building to Samuel Rucker on March 27, 1866, for $4000--foreclosure on October 14, 1876, when Henry Rieger bought it for $400. Research done by Dean Earl Wood, Kansas City lawyer, who died in Kansas City, May 14, 1967: The two-story building was sold to David Meriwether on March 11, 1880, for $1600. During Mr. Meriwether's ownership the annex on the north was built probably in 1891 or 1892. In 1904 the property sold to John F. and Jake C. Wiedenmann and is now (1968) owned by Mr. & Mrs. George R. Wiedenmann.
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1966-06-08
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Newspaper Article
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Mark City's Oldest Building
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News about the placement of a "plaque marking a structure at 500 Westport road as the oldest building in Kansas City," known as Boone's Trading Post or Kelly's Tavern, said to be "built in 1837 by Joseph Parks, a merchant [o]f mixed white and Indian ancestry" and later used by "Albert Gallatin Boone, a grandson of Daniel Boone" as "an outfitting store for wagon trains" in the 1850s.
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1959-11-08
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Newspaper Article
