The Spring
2005 JOURNAL of the Jackson County Historical Society features A Few Historic Facts About Kansas City’s
Streets.
If by chance while you are driving in the Kansas City, Missouri, area and wonder, “Where did that street name come from,� test drive A Few Historic Facts About Kansas City’s Streets before “passing with care� this issue of the JOURNAL on to a friend for family member. This article includes extracts from James A. Tharp’s compilations of Kansas City street name changes. It also adapts portions of a speech delivered by Dr. Abram Miller in 1936, which is an original transcript preserved in one of the Jackson County Historical Society’s women’s history collections, the Papers of Jane Fifield Flynn. James A. Tharp has compiled more than 200 pages detailing the evolution of Kansas City street names. Reference copies of his work-in-progress are available at the Mid-Continent Genealogy and Local History Library and at the Jackson County Historical Society’s Archives and Research Library. Future modifications to this research tool will be to abstract from Kansas City Council ordinances, and to carry the research forward from 1900. Anyone desiring to help with this process is most welcome to make a contribution. Websites offering more information: Printed
maps and atlases in the Jackson County Historical Society’s Archives Plat
maps in the Jackson County Historical Society’s Archives Jackson
County Highway Maps in the Jackson County Historical Society’s Archives Kansas
City Streets catalog search at the Kansas City Public Library To order this JOURNAL edition, subscribe or join JCHS click
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