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Title
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Street Railway Progress
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Description
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The Metropolitan Street Railway Company spent nearly two million dollars in 1899 modernizing Kansas City's street railways. Expenditures are included in this article detailing the different work that was completed.
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Date
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1900-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Heim Road Completed
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Description
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The Heim Road, also referred to as the East Side Electric Railway, will near completion by October 15, 1899. The road, being 2.5 miles long, will run �??from Market Square to the intersection of the old county road, a point north of Heim�??s brewery in the East Bottoms.�?�
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Date
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1899-10
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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The Hocker Grove Bungalows
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Description
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Short article about the acreage north of Johnson Drive and west of Turkey Creek purchased by Kansas City banker R. W. Hocker in 1905 and its subsequent development as an amusement park. Hocker became director of the Kansas City and Olathe Railroad Company and an electric trolley line"--known locally as the 'Hocker Line'--from Rosedale to Merriam was completed in 1908." In 1915, Hocker developed the Hocker Grove subdivision of 17 homes, several being Craftsman style bungalows. An image of the bungalow at 9617 Hocker Drive is included.
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Date
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2009
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Lackman Thompson Farm
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Description
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Article with photograph of the Lackman Thompson home, located at 11180 Lackman Road. This home was placed on the Register of Historic Kansas paces in 1992. In 1901 William Lackman started an interurban railway called the Kansas City and Olathe. His partner, Shawnee resident and former Johnson County Treasurer, David B. Johnson, ran off with the company funds.
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Date
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2008
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Mapping the Past
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Description
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Article gives a history of the KCCC&ST, or Kansas City, Clay County and St. Joseph, Railway Company. Completed in 1913 and flourishing from then until the mid-1920s, the Interurban was made obsolete by private automobiles, buses and the Depression and ceased operation in 1933. Nonetheless, it played a key role in the development of Clay, Platte and Buchanan Counties.
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Date
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2006
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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William B. Strang, Jr.
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Description
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Photo and bio of William B. Strang, Jr., or William Strang, "dreamer, visionary, inventor, real estate and community developer, prometer, and entrepreneur-on-a-shoe string" coming to Kansas City from New York City around the turn of the 19th century. Description of his transportation career, establishing the Strang Line or the Missouri and Kansas Interurban Railway from Kansas City, Missouri, to Olathe, Kansas, and points in-between (ending in 1940 as obsolete because of automobile proliferation), leading to the development of Overland Park, Kansas, and establishing Strang Aviation Park there in 1909.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Book Section
