History

Although Edwin Alfred Hickman’s time in southern Jackson County was limited, his industriousness brought a mill to the area that became a landmark. 

The fight to save this slice of our area’s past began in 1890 when Wyandot descendants were split in two. One courageous woman named Lyda Conley refused to be silenced.

Who murdered a Civil War veteran who lived in a tiny house just blocks away from where Union Station stands today?

In 1934, a middle-aged beauty shop manager vanished from sight after attending a labor meeting at 14th and Woodland in Kansas City. She was found dazed and confused hundreds of miles away, but the incident remains mysterious.

Devinki Real Estate moves to new offices at 97th and Wornall   By Tyler Schneider For

The nostalgia of Kiddie Land on Wornall Road By Diane Euston   Growing up in south

A visit to Sauer Castle By Kathy Feist, Editor On September 19th, Telegraph historian Diane

From Teacher to Preacher to Real Estate Dealer: Rev. Nathan Scarritt By Diane Euston   To

Historic Sauer Castle is a landmark that needs saving By Diane Euston   Nestled on a

How Indian Village became Santa Fe Hills By Diane Euston   In the last issue of

The clubhouse for Indian Village, originally the Boone home (right) and added onto by William

Kansas City’s Mystery One-Month Mayor By Diane Euston    Tucked away in a ten-inch album, hidden

From the 1970s into the 1990s, the future of the KC School District was in peril as a result of the exodus to the suburbs and the outcome of an eight-year long lawsuit that has lasting effects even today.

“Its persistence more than a generation later as a major cultural divide is evidence that Kansas City never dealt successfully with segregated schools” and this “explains much of the community’s cultural geography.”

Starting with Pinkerton Detective Agency and likely fixed on leading a squeaky-clean life, Hagan fell into the corruption readily available in Kansas City.