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Title: Results of Jackson County Planning: Jackson County, Missouri
Description: Photo and caption for "the old slave cabin of [Elihu] Coffee Rice (early settler). ..built in 1821," on Blue Ridge Boulevard in Jackson County.
Date: 1933
Object Type: Book

Title: Elihu Coffee Rice Residence
Description: Information about the slave cabin of Elihu Coffee Rice, or Elihu Rice, on Blue Ridge Boulevard, built in the early 19th century and known as Aunt Sophie's Cabin. Also information on the Rice-Tremonti Home, named partly for its later resident, Dr. Louis Tremonti.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Honoring a Historic Woman
Description: The slave cabin called Aunt Sophie's Kitchen is to be rededicated Saturday, December 4, 2004. Part of the Rice-Tremonti Home, the cabin was home to the slave called Aunt Sophie. It's at Blue Ridge Boulevard and 66th Street. Article gives some history of Sophie and the Rice family as well as the cabin that has been rebuilt several times.
Date: 2004-11-30
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: New Life for Historic Aunt Sophie's Slave Cabin
Description: Brief article describing the completed restoration of "Aunt Sophie's" cabin at the Rice-Tremonti Home in Raytown, Missouri. The cabin was once slave quarters for a woman named "Sophie" who worked for the Rice family.
Date: 2004-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Santa Fe Trail Marker
Description: Santa Fe Trail marker located on Blue Ridge Drive, full view with what appears to be the Rice-Tremonti House in background partially showing. Marker placed by the DAR and the state of Missouri, 1909. Identified with photo as Santa Fe Trail Markers-on Blue Ridge Drive.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Aunt Sophie's Cabin/Kitchen
Description: Full view of log cabin still standing referred to as Aunt Sophie's kitchen in the scrapbook. Located by the home of Archibald Rice which is referred to as the Rice-Tremonti home. Located in Raytown, Mo. at 8801 E. 66th, near the Santa Fe Trail.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Aunt Sophie's Cabin
Description: Interior view of Aunt Sophieâ€™s kitchen (cabin) showing the fireplace. Located at Rice-Tremonti Home in Raytown, Missouri.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Aunt Sophie's Cabin
Description: Similar view of Aunt Sophie's Cabin as #38 in this collection, different angle. Located on Rice-Tremonti Home location in Raytown, Missouri.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Dog Finds Markers For Pioneers' Graves
Description: A Raytown family has discovered, thanks to their dog's digging, the gravestones of some early Jackson County pioneers. To date, six monuments have been discovered including those of the Archibald Rice family, original residents of the Rice-Tremonti Home at 66th Street and Blue Ridge Boulevard.
Date: 2005-06-05
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Cabin near Rice-Tremonti Home
Description: Full view of a log cabin identified on the back of the photograph as "Rice Cabin" or known as Aunt Sophie's cabin or kitchen located on the Archibald Rice, later Dr. Louis Tremonti, homesite. Notation on back indicates that this cabin, first built in 1821, is the oldest house in Jackson County. It is located at 66th and Blue Ridge Boulevard near the Rice-Tremonti house. The cabin has been restored several times over the years.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Rice-Tremonti Home Certified
Description: Article about the certification of the Rice-Tremonti home's location on both the Santa Fe and California Trails by the National Park Service, having been built in the 1840s.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Homes for the Holidays
Description: Article about Christmas-decorated historic homes open for tours as fund-raisers including the Longview mansion and the Rice-Tremonti home built in 1844 in what is now Raytown. Includes a list of the "24 holiday homes tours in the KC region" (p. D3).
Date: 2011-11-01
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Rice-Tremonti Home: Rice Frontier Days
Description: Description of the festivities surrounding the Rice-Tremonti Home, built in 1844 and called "Raytown's most historic site," as "a popular camping site on the Santa Fe Trail," with illustration.
Date: 1991
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Archibald Rice Plantation Campground, 8 miles From Independence On the Santa Fe, California, Oregon Pioneer Trails In the Spring of 1849
Description: This paper has numerous excerpts from diaries of those who were preparing to be on the trails west and that mention the area of the Archibald Rice place.
Date: 1995
Object Type: Manuscript

Title: Rediscovery of the Rice Family Plantation Cemetery in Raytown
Description: Grave markers have been discovered by a family dog in the yard of the Morgan family in Raytown. The tombstone of Sallie Rice, wife of early Jackson County figure Archibald Rice, was unearthed and is pictured with the article. The Rice family plantation home has been preserved in Raytown as well as slave Sophia White's home referred to as Aunt Sophie's cabin. Current photographs of both the house and the log cabin are included. Those known to be buried within the Coffee Rice Cemetery are listed as well as stones not yet found. The current owners of the land "are respectfully planning a private memorial garden over the location of the cemetery that remains in the corner of their back yard."
Date: 2005
Object Type: Magazine Article

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