History

Lying underneath parking lot pavement and the skeleton of where Hy-Vee once conducted business at 123rd and State Line are the invisible remains of a small hamlet called Oxford.

Under the watchful eye of Fr. Donnelly, Irish immigrants carved out the streets of Kansas City, virtually eliminating the bluffs and creating more land to settle south of the riverfront.

Simpson Younger’s father was his mother’s master….and the grandfather of Confederate outlaws Cole, Jim and Bob Younger. Light skinned and well educated, Simpson was an early challenger of discrimination laws.

In Forest Hill Cemetery, located at 69th and Troost, 75 unmarked graves are a part of this area’s Civil War history.

Author and filmmaker Terence O’Malley presents “KC Mafia and Missouri Politics in the 1940s” at Red Bridge library at 7 pm Monday.

Mobillion W. McGee has a story to tell that is just as unique as his name.

Diane Euston remembers playing in New Santa Fe Cemetery with her friends as a child and wondering why there were so many children buried there. Tonight the Telegraph columnist shares a lifetime of research at St. Thomas More Hall starting at 6 pm–rain or snow.

In this area, some guests traveled by horse up to 20 miles away to attend Christmas parties. When parties went all night long, “pallets were spread about the floor” to create makeshift beds.

Petticoat Lane, known today as 11th Street, was an iconic stretch of real estate in downtown Kansas City famous for year-round fashion.

In an 80-year span, these Indians were forced from their homes in Canada, Ohio and Kansas, later settling in Oklahoma.

Sometimes this day of thanks didn’t even fall in November. For example, in 1857, Missouri’s governor Robert Stewart “fixed upon Thursday, the 31st day of December.

With the recent reopening of Longview Farm, the country estate built in 1914 by timber baron Robert A. Long, it’s worth reviewing the remarkable life of this high-rolling yet humble, God-fearing entrepreneur.

The little bank in Martin City was host to three bank robberies, and all involve an unsuspecting cashier named Samuel J. Roberts.

Our historian experiences a paranormal investigation at the Shawnee Indian Mission.