Metropolitan Community College - Sunburst Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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f 5 Ciiy College I. Power and City Skyline Ligh1B ,4.J.C.NhI F T from KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI . . . Where The Missouri River Turns norTh, early WesTern immi- granTs disembarked To begin Their Treks on The overland Trail. Thus began The Two roaring TronTier seTTIemenTs-The Missouri River Town of Kansas and The bustling Town oT WesTporT. Men like Lewis and Clark, Daniel Boone, and Francis ChouTeau esTablished headquarTers near The TuTure ciTy, and as The newly-developed sTeamboaT demanded a major TransporTaTion arTery, Kansas CiTy began To prosper as a prominenT landing poinT. On Feb- ruary.22, I853, The CiTy of Kansas was given formal recogniTion. Henry Haskell aTTribuTes The greaT sTaTure oT our ciTy To Two chief TacTors- The greaT bend of The Missouri, and Nelson of The Star, These alone did noT generaie The rapid growTh of our communiTy, buT each played a prominenT role in The progress of a maiuring Kansas CiTy. The Kansas CiTy, Missouri School DisTricT devel- oped wiTh The demanding Town, and as The ciTy progressed and suburban areas grew, The need Tor oTher school disTricTs pasT The original bound- aries oT Kansas CiTy became imper0Tive. 2. I lr if

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v-...,m-M Nxxmes l City Hull, Ruytownp 2 3 Residential Development, H k ebour Air Force B . Historic Station Mills 4 1 2. T 'Ht l ...X from GRANDVIEW . . . ln downtown Grandview at Fifth and Main there stands an old building representing the origin ot the present modern community, this is the tirst general store, owned by a major landowner ot the l9th Century, John Anderson. Because the nearest post ottice was at Hickman's Mill lnow Hickman Millsl and because it required a day to travel there tor the mail, some ot the men decided that a town site should be laid out, a name chosen, and a post ottice re- quested. One day the solitary store owner, Mr. Anderson, called Solomon Young and Ervin Wall- ingtord to the steps ot his store and, pointing out over the landscape, exclaimed, lsn't that a grand view? The two listeners quickly secured the de- scription to permanently represent their newtown. From this beginning Grandview grew to its present form. In l9ll the tirst high school with an enroll- ment ot eight pupils was built on the main street. Today the thriving school district and community is another progressive example of rapid suburban growth in the Kansas City area. from RAYTOWN . . . Now in the dizzy pace of suburban growth,- Raytown originated as a postal station and assembly place tor wagon trains on the Santa Fe Trail. Around T830 Absalom Wray established his blacksmith shop to repair wagons and shod mules and oxen as Conestoga caravans gathered tor the western trip. The Brooking town- ship ot l872 became a semi-rural village by l93O, in T950 the town of Raytown was incorporated, named after the original blacksmith of more than a century before. Raytown stands as the center core ot the Con- solidated School District No. 2, whose tirst high school-the original Raytown High-was erected in l927.