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Title
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Historic Old Westport
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Description
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Map showing historic Westport, Missouri. Includes current and original street names, location of homes and businesses (including original and modern site, if relocated).
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Westport City Hall
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Description
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View looking southwest along High (now W. 40th Terrace) Street showing the Westport City Hall building that once stood at its intersection with Pennsylvania Avenue. Cars parked along the street can be seen. The building also served as stations for the fire and police departments. A sign for Police Department No. 5 is displayed on the building. A Red Crown Gasoline station east of the building is in view. A portion of a Manor Baking Company building can be seen in the background.
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Date
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1930~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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One of Old West Port's Personalities
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Description
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Biographical article about Duke Simpson (1795-1853), assistant blacksmith with his father Richard Duke Simpson, or Richard Simpson (ca. 1770-1853) for the Shawnee Indians in Westport in the 1840s. Also "once famed in Westport for having probably the most expensive house in the town."
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Date
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1974-09
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Map of Battle Field of Westport
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Description
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Map depicting car lines, Union Army, confederate Army, known battery locations, and heavy fighting sabers. "Covering territory from Brush Creek on the North to Indian Creek on the South, and lying between the Big Blue River on the East and the State line on the West, covering approximately 68 sq. miles, also, small territory on Rock Creek East of the Big Blue River covering about 5 square miles."
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Date
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1923-08
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Object Type
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Map
