Concordia Missouri Main Street 1900s Leonard D. and Marie H. Rehkop Collection of Algert T. Peterson Photographs SHSM Collection C3888.jpg

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This file appears in: Brief History of Concordia Missouri

Concordia Missouri Main Street 1900s Leonard D. and Marie H. Rehkop Collection of Algert T. Peterson Photographs SHSM Collection C3888.jpg

This file appears in: Brief History of Concordia Missouri

Brief History of Concordia Missouri

By University of Central Missouri History Program, Paul Atwood

Located 60 miles east of Kansas City and 20 miles north of Knob Noster, immigrants from the southern Hanover region of Germany platted Concordia in 1868. Prior to 1868, a Lutheran community began to gather in the German community of Freedom…