Stories tagged "Missouri": 54
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Bothwell Lodge State Historic Site East Wing
The site began in 1896 with the purchase of the original 55 acres by Mr. John Homer Bothwell. In 1897, a seven-room “English style” stone cottage was constructed for John Bothwell and his friends and family to use as a warm weather retreat. In…
Kansas City Missouri 18th & Vine Eblon Theater
Homer Eblon constructed the Eblon Theater as a vaudeville and motion picture theater in 1923. It had a seating capacity of one thousand and included restrooms, uniformed ushers, and an overhead cooling system. It was home to the Eblon Orchestra,…
Kansas City Missouri 18th & Vine Mutual Musicians Foundation
Perhaps one of the most well-known aspects of the 18th and Vine District is its significant role in the development of Kansas City's jazz scene. 18th and Vine was the home for many nightclubs, music halls, theaters, and restaurants where jazz…
Kansas City Missouri 18th & Vine Paseo YMCA
The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) was formed in England in 1844. The YMCA sought to improve opportunities for young men by stressing spiritual, social, and physical development. By 1851, the YMCA started forming branches in the…
Kansas City Missouri 18th & Vine Lincoln High School
"The Kansas City Call" was very significant in the fight for equal rights for African American citizens. It was a strong voice for change in society and within their community. Chester Franklin and Roy Wilkins fought hard for the black…
Kansas City Missouri 18th & Vine Attucks School
In 1867, a census revealed there were 250 black school-aged children living in Kansas City. Over the course of twenty-six years, multiple schools were built to house and educate African American children. In 1893, Attucks School was founded and…
Kansas City Missouri 18th and Vine District
Before the Civil War in 1860, the population of Kansas City was 4,418, which included 190 enslaved residents. Once freed, blacks were forced into segregated areas in the city. Between 1860 and 1870 many former slaves came to the city looking for…
Chillicothe Missouri Stone Music Hall Store
Spencer A. Stone was born on April 1, 1853 in Connorsville, Wabash County, Indiana to Kentucky native Spencer A. Stone Sr. and his wife Miss Ellen Daily. The death of his parents at an early age, left him an orphan. When he was fifteen years old, he…
Chillicothe Missouri Jenkins Hay Rake & Stacker Co.
Marion R. Jenkins was born in Audrain county on August 15, 1854. His parents Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Jenkins lived on a farm in Browning, Missouri of Linn County. After quitting the farm, M. R. Jenkins became the owner of the Jenkins Hay Rake &…
Chillicothe Missouri State Industrial Home for Girls
The State Industrial Home For Girls was approved by the Thirty-Fourth General Assembly of Missouri on March 30, 1887. Based on a cottage management plan and a domestic industry instruction program required by law, $50,000 was appropriated and the…
Chillicothe Missouri Luella Theatre
The Luella Theatre was the first opera house in Chillicothe, Missouri, to serve the patrons of the city for not only entertainment but as a place for social organization gatherings for important events in the late nineteenth century. In January…
Chillicothe Missouri Federal Building
The Federal Building and Post Office jointly located in one building on the corner of Locust and Clay streets in Chillicothe, Missouri, was constructed in a grand rectangular size, with three-floor levels in the Beaux-Arts architectural style, which…
Chillicothe Missouri Tour
Livingston County is located in northern Missouri north of the Missouri River that borders the Grand River. The land has several small streams with even smaller twisting water branches that flow southeast and drain into the Mississippi river. The…
Sedalia Missouri American Red Cross
After the Battle of Solferino in 1859, Henry Dunant from Switzerland organized the European Red Cross Movement to train national relief societies that could provide neutral care during war. In 1863, the International Committee of the Red Cross…
Sedalia Missouri German Evangelical Church
The German Evangelical Church of the West was formed on October 15, 1840, in Gravois, Missouri. It united the various German church denominations of Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, and Indiana. In 1866, the organization changed its name to the German…
Blind Boone in Warrensburg
John William Boone was born on May 17, 1864, to Rachel Boone in Miami, Missouri, in a Union army camp occupied by the Seventh Militia, Company I. Rachel Boone had been enslaved at birth in 1843 in Kentucky. It is unclear just exactly who enslaved…
Blind Boone in Warrensburg
When Willie was eight, Rachel Boone married Harrison Hendricks and moved into his home, which sat "just back of the old Land Fike's Mill [Eureka Mills] on Mill Street." Melissa Fuell Cuther noted: "The house was a one-room log…
Blind Boone in Warrensburg
Melissa Fuell was born in Warrensburg, Missouri, on May 15, 1886, and attended and graduated from the Howard School and was active in music. She went on to study at the Lincoln Institute in Jefferson City, where she trained to be a…
Blind Boone in Warrensburg
The Magnolia Opera house, an 800 seat theater, was located at 145 West Pine at the corner of Washington and West Pine. Construction started on the theater in 1889, but the first performances did not occur until 1890.
The Magnolia Opera house was…
Blind Boone in Warrensburg
Blind Boone passed away in Warrensburg, Missouri, on October 4, 1927, while visting his step brother at 408 W. Market Street. (The actual home is no longer extant.)
African American men and women from Warrensburg attended Blind Boone's…
Blind Boone in Warrensburg
Blind Boone gave several concerts at the Christian Church in Warrensburg and, according to his biographer, Mellissa Fuell, he considered himself a member of the denomination.
On December 19th and 20th, 1890, Blind Boone gave two concerts at the…
Blind Boone's Warrensburg Experience Blind Boone Concert Company
In 1880 John Lange entered into a written contract with Rachel Hendrix that he would pay her $10 a month for young Willie's musical talent until he was 21. His first concert was in Columbia and it grossed only $7. At that time the company…
Brief History Sedalia Missouri
The city that became Sedalia was founded on land inhabited by the Osage Nation. After the United States removed the Osage from Missouri in 1825, white settlers became the predominate inhabitants of the area including, George R. Smith, who founded…
Jones Brothers Mule Barn
In 1912 Walter and Perry Jones paid $26,000 to build what came to be known as the Jones Brothers Mule Barn. The barn played an important role in a thriving mule business that had developed in Johnson County and Warrensburg around the turn of the…