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Title
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Oak Grove Banner: Sni-a-Bar History
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Description
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Reprint from the Oak Grove Banner newspaper of February 22, 1902 about the history of Sni-a-Bar Township in northeastern Jackson County, "organized May 5, 1834." Containing 5,000 people in 1902 including "the towns of Oak Grove [originally called Lickskillet] and Blue Springs" and Grain Valley, Missouri as well as many farms and forests.
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Date
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2001
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Sni-A-Bar Gardens
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Description
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Postcard image and short article about Sni-A-Bar Gardens, described as the "largest and best appointed dinner dance place in the central west." The entertainment venue was located at 40 Highway and Blue Ridge Boulevard in eastern Jackson County. The article also includes information on the "Sni-A-Bar" name origin.
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Date
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2012-04-11
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Sni-A-Bar Hills
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Description
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Author Schnetzer gives the various origins of the name Sni-A-Bar. According to Schnetzer, the French term Chenal Hubert may be the most creditable source for the name. Additional information is given on Sni-A-Bar Creek, Sni-A-Bar Township, and Sni-A-Bar Hills. This area in eastern Jackson County was familiar territory to William Quantrill and his group. The physical geography was important to them, but "Sni-A-Bar Township in Jackson County became Quantrill's principal rendezvous mainly because this area provided many bushwhackers and Confederate sympathizers." Details are provided for the war activities in this area during the time period of the Civil War.
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Date
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2008-10
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Britton Capell
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Description
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One paragraph of biography about Britton Capell, "one of the oldest settlers now living in Sni-a-bar [sic] township," moving from North Carolina to Kentucky and to Missouri in 1839.
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Date
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1877
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Bridges Cemetery
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Description
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Description of location and persons interred at the Bridges Cemetery in the Sni-a-Bar Township of Jackson County, Missouri. Research gathered in 1979 by Ms. Karol Witthar of Blue Springs Historical Society indicates the Bridges Cemetery had been destroyed in 1959-1960. The disposition of the bodies and stones were unknown. Located at Liggett Road, a quarter mile west of Highway 7, it was a cornfield in 1979.
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Date
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1934
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Object Type
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Book
