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Blind Boone in Warrensburg
The park that today is known as Blind Boone Park once served as the park for African American residents of Warrensburg up until the Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka, KS Supreme Court ruling that mandated the integration of public…
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
John Lange, Jr., was born enslaved in Harrisburg, Kentucky on October 4, 1840 to a free man and an enslaved mother. During the Civil War he worked with his father as a butcher and at the end of the Civil War the Lange family moved to Columbia…
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…
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Harry Truman Returns to Jackson County Missouri as President Independence Motorcade
President Truman's blue Cadillac approached the Independence square via West Lexington and circled the square traveling west on Maple Street, directly in front of the 1933 Courthouse, which he had remodeled when he was County Judge.
The…
Old Drum Statue
On October 28, 1869, Charles Burden found his favorite dog, Old Drum, shot dead. Burden learned that his neighbor and brother-in-law, Leonidas Hornsby, had killed Drum because he had been harassing his livestock. Burden, with the help of lawyer…
Johnson County Missouri Historical Society
The Johnson County Historical Society formed in 1958 and serves as an important center for helping residents of Johnson County and those interested in Johnson County history understand the significance of the county's past.
The Johnson…
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Harry Truman Returns to Jackson County Missouri for the First Time as President June 1945
12 Locations ~ Curated by University of Central Missouri History Program Dr. Jon TaylorBlind Boone in Warrensburg Missouri
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A project by University of Central Missouri History ProgramHistoric Missouri is a free mobile app that provides users easy access to information about the important places, people, and stories that are unique to Missouri. Developed by the faculty and students in the History Program at the University of Central Missouri, the mobile application provides interpretive and curated narrative tours about Missouri’s history. Each point on the map includes historical information about that site and features historic images from Missouri’s archival institutions like the State Historical Society of Missouri and the Missouri State Archives.
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