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1827 Log Courthouse
Type: History | Location: East
Jackson County's first government building, constructed with slave labor, was the only courthouse between St. Louis and the Pacific at the time the Santa Fe Trail trade began.
Two-room log structu...
1859 Jail, Marshal's Home & Museum
Type: Museums | Location: East
1859 Jail, Marshal's Home & Museum has been rated 5 out of 5 stars
The dungeon-like cells of the 1859 Jail housed thousands of prisoners during the bloodiest time in Jackson County’s history, including Frank James and William Clark Quantrill. Looking much like it did...
1950s All-Electric House
Type: History | Location: Southwest
1950s All-Electric House has been rated 4 out of 5 stars
Whether you're a child of the Fifties or just curious about lifestyles from this nostalgic era, The 1950s All-Electric House at the Johnson County Museum of History offers an eye-opening look at the t...
Airline History Museum
Type: Museums | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area
Airline History Museum has been rated 3 out of 5 stars
The Airline History Museum is located at the historic Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport, just north across the Broadway Bridge from downtown Kansas City, Missouri. To walk through it is to truly ste...
Alexander Majors Historic House & Museum
Type: History | Location: Southeast
In the westward expansion of the 1850's, his firm's freighting operations were instrumental in bringing supplies to settlements and forts west of Kansas City. The prominence of Major's company attract...
Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum
Type: Museums | Location: Regional
Amelia Earhart's birthplace and early childhood home was a house built by her grandfather, Judge Alfred G. Otis, in the early 1860's. Now owned by the Ninety-Nines, the site has been restored to its ...
American Jazz Museum
Type: Museums | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area
American Jazz Museum has been rated 5 out of 5 stars
The sights and sounds of a uniquely American art form come alive at the American Jazz Museum. The Museum includes interactive exhibits and educational programs as well as the Blue Room, a working jazz...
Arabia Steamboat Museum
Type: Museums | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area
Arabia Steamboat Museum has been rated 5 out of 5 stars
The Arabia Steamboat Museum is home to a true time capsule of frontier life in the 1800s. The Arabia was headed up the Missouri River in the fall of 1856 when she struck a tree snag and sank just nort...
Arrow Rock, Missouri
Type: History | Location: East
In 1829, the town of Arrow Rock was founded on the bluff above the ferry crossing. Its situation on the Missouri River and Santa Fe Trail meant that large numbers of travelers heading west passed thro...
Asylum Bridge
Type: History | Location: Southwest
The Asylum Bridge is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The bridge was built in 1905 by the Kansas City Bridge company of Kansas City, MO, for $4,800. The pin connected reverse Parker...
Battle of Lexington & Oliver Anderson House
Type: History | Location: East
Once called "the largest and best arranged dwelling house west of St. Louis." Today Oliver Anderson's mansion is best known for the three bloody days in 1861 when it was a fiercely contested prize in ...
Battle of Westport
Type: History | Location: Country Club Plaza Area
Many signs and placards commemorating some aspect of the Battle of Westport are present throughout Kansas City today. The main memorial for the battle is located in the Sunset Hill neighborhood just s...
Bingham-Waggoner Estate
Type: History | Location: East
The Bingham-Waggoner Estate is recognized today as one of the most significant historical sites in western Missouri because of its role in the history of the area and the people that lived there. Plot...
Black Jack Battlefield
Type: History | Location: West
Site of the June 2, 1856, battle between John Brown and the Free-State militia and Pro-Slavery militia of Henry C. Pate. First armed battle over the issue of slavery. Three miles east of Baldwin City,...
Blue Springs Historical Society/ Dillingham-Lewis Museum
Type: History | Location: East
The Dillingham-Lewis Museum in Blue Springs, Missouri, was built in 1906 and is the only structure in Blue Springs constructed of native limestone. The house is named after two families.
The origi...
Buffalo Soldier Monument
Type: History | Location: Northwest
Fort Leavenworth, KS, initiated and dedicated in 1992 by Gen. Colin Powell to the memory of the 9th & 10th Cavalry Regiments made up of black soldiers. These troopers proved their bravery & valor thro...
C. W. Parker Carousel Museum
Type: History | Location: Northwest
Charles Wallace Parker started traveling carnivals in the midwest and was expanding rapidly. His carousels began to evolve through several style changes. He went from the track machines to the jumping...
Carroll Mansion
Type: History | Location: Northwest
John and Letitia Foster purchased lots 8, 9, and 10 on the NorthWest corner of Fifth Avenue and Middle Street . The purchase included a two story, four-room frame house with a one-story rear kitchen w...
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
Type: Museums | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area
In 1833, a French missionary, Father Benedict Roux, arrived with instructions to form a permanent parish. At 11th and Broadway, the community built a log cabin church in 1835.
Father Bernard Donnell...
Cave Spring Interpretive Center
Type: History | Location: Southeast
Our nature center includes an interpretive center building, picnic area, and scenic walking trails and is available for family reunions, office parties, birthday parties and educational programs.The e...
Chicago & Alton Hotel
Type: History | Location: East
Built in 1878 by J. K. Parr, the hotel is the oldest business building in Blue Springs, Mo. In 1978 the hotel, which originally served the railroad, was moved from the original site just south of Mai...
Chicago and Alton Depot
Type: History | Location: East
The Depot was built in 1879. It was moved to its current location and restored during the decade from 1992 to 2002.
The two-story depot contains three rooms on the first floor which are the waiting...
City Market, The
Type: Farmer's Market & Specialty Foods | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area
In operation since 1857, the City Market is the largest farmers’ market in the region with an annual attendance of nearly 600,000 per year and bursting with more than 170 farmer stalls. In addition, C...
City of Independence Historic Preservation
Type: History | Location: East
The City of Independence has a rich and diverse architectural heritage with buildings dating from the early nineteenth century. The Historic Preservation Division is responsible for the preservation, ...
Civil War Round Table of Western Missouri
Type: History | Location: East
Discussion and history group that centers on the Civil War and events pertaining to it. Group meets the second Wednesday of the month at 7pm at Old Blake Museum, 106 E. Walnut, Independence, MO....