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Title: Bates County Museum
Description: File containing a flyer for the Bates County Museum in the old jail building in Butler, Missouri.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: A Growth Spurt for KC Area
Description: Bates and Caldwell Counties in Missouri and Franklin and Linn Counties in Kansas were added to the metropolitan area bringing the total to 17 counties. The area is officially known as the Kansas City-Overland Park-Kansas City, MO-KS CSA, after the three biggest cities. The new area of combined counties results in almost two million residents and covers more than 9,100 square miles. Article includes map and population statistics.
Date: 2004-03-24
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Fire in the Hole: Missouri's Coal History
Description: Article describes the history of the coal industry in Missouri. An explosion at Mine No. 6 of the Keith & Perry Coal Company in Rich Hill, Missouri, that resulted in the deaths of over twenty miners on March 29, 1888, is focused upon. Circumstances leading to the accident as well as the general working conditions of mines in the nineteenth century are discussed. Information related to several Missouri and Kansas based coal mining operations is provided throughout the article.
Date: 2013-07-28
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Bates CO. Missouri
Description: Map of Bates County, Missouri, that includes paved roads, graveled roads, state or county roads not highly improved, roads, interstates and highways, railroads, drainage district line, municipal township lines, streams, and schools. Includes the townships of West Boone, East Boone, Deer Creek, Grand River, Mingo, West Point, Elkhart, Mound, Shawnee, Spruce, Homer, Charlotte, Mount Pleasant, Summit, Deepwater, Walnut, New Home, Lone Oak, Pleasant Gap, Hudson, Howard, Osage, Prairie, and Rockville.
Object Type: Map

Title: Map of Bates County, Missouri
Description: Map of Bates County showing townships in color, towns, sections, schools, and roads.
Date: 1883
Object Type: Map

Title: Digging The Scorched Earth
Description: Archaeologist Ann Raab, a PhD student at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, has excavated two major sites in Bates County to verify the effects of General Order No. 11 on residents of Bates County, part of the Burnt District. Article discusses the dating methods used, one being the thickness of glass, and results of the excavations.
Date: 2010-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Development of a Market Economy: Bates County, Missouri, 1875-1890
Description: Description of the coal mining interests in Bates County, Missouri, in the 1870s-1880s by railroads transporting it out of nearby Kansas City including "the Keith and Perry Coal Company" operated by the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf Railroad.
Date: 1978-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Border War Archaeology in Bates County, Missouri
Description: "Archaeological research is currently being conducted in Bates County, Missouri, an area at the epicenter of some of the worst guerrilla warfare on American soil. This is an opportunity to test theories that this type of warfare promotes predictable socioeconomic response." Article talks about the research program and some of the initial findings.
Date: 2009-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: A NEW Water Plant on a REHAB Budget
Description: Photos and article (written by a Kansas City engineer) about the new water plant built by Kansas City's Riddle Engineering company for the town of Butler, Missouri (in Bates County just south of Cass County), utilitzing its existing facilities and water sources consisting of the Miami Creek and the Marais des Cygnes River.
Date: 1969-08
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Marking Missouri History
Description: History of the "Harmony Mission, a school for the [Osage] Indians of Missouri. ..on the north bank of the Osage River" in Bates County, Missouri, with a description of the Osage Indians and an illustration.
Date: 1998
Object Type: Book

Title: How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named
Description: First of a series of articles about origins of place names in Missouri, including the name of the state of Missouri itself and Andrew County (containing the town of Savannah, Missouri), Atchison County, Barton County, Missouri, Bates County, and Benton County, Missouri.
Date: 1916-04
Object Type: Magazine Article

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