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Kansas City, MO History

Kansas City traces its beginnings to 1821, the year Missouri was admitted to the Union. In that year a Frenchman from St. Louis, Francois Chouteau, came up the Missouri River and established a trading post on the waterway. The city was originally named Kansas after the Kansa Indians who inhabited the area.

The City of Kansas got a strong taste of the Civil War during the Battle of Westport Oct. 21-23, 1864, said to be the largest and most decisive Union-Confederate clash in Missouri. It was here that the Union army routed the Confederates and broke their power as an army in this area.

Annexations, mainly in the late 1950s and early 1960s, increased the city to more than 316 square miles, and the population grew to 435,000. The city now includes parts of four counties: Jackson, Clay, Platte and Cass. Significant developments in recent years have included completion of the 4,700-acre Kansas City International Airport and the world's only matched set of football and baseball stadiums, Kemper Arena in 1974, and H. Roe Bartle Exposition Hall in 1976.

Kansas City, Missouri – City of Fountains and Boulevards

Kansas City, Missouri is said to have more fountains than any city except Rome and more boulevards than any city except Paris. With its many fountains and boulevards, it is popular city for tourists.