Kansas City, Missouri, USA
1895 - Kansas City

Kansas City, Missouri, the second city of the state in population and importance, is in Jackson co., on the right or S. bank of the Missouri River, 3 mile below the mouth of the Kansas River. Lat. 39°4' N.; lon. 94° 37' 40" W. By railroad it is 283 miles W. by N. of St. Louis, 26 miles S.E. of Leavenworth, and 70 miles S. by E. of St. Joseph. It is the W. terminus of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, which connects here with the Kansas Pacific Railroad. Ten other roads meet here from various directions, and the trains of several lines cross the Missouri River on a magnificent iron bridge which was erected at a cost of about $1,000,000. The city is mostly built on the top and sides of a steep hill, the site having been originally very rough and uneven. It has, however, been greatly improved by grading, and much money has been expended in sewers, water-works, and mains. It has 28 churches, 14 schools, 2 medical colleges, a seminary, 2 hospitals, an orphan asylum, a workhouse, 2 theatres, an opera-house, and a county, district, and United States court-house. Six daily, 2 tri-weekly, 10 weekly, and 2 monthly periodicals are issued here. The centre of a region of extraordinary agricultural resources and abounding in coal, lead, iron, &c., it has of late become an important commercial city, doing a very large business in live-stock and grain, and in manufacturing railroad-iron, furniture, linseed oil, car-wheels, flour, &c. According to the census returns it had in 1890 a capital of $12,708,990 invested in manufactures, the value of the product being $31,571,559. A board of trade was organized in 1872. Pop. in 1860, 4418; in 1870, 32,260; in 1880, 55,785; in 1890, 132,716.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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