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  2. History of the Kansas City metropolitan area - Wikipedia

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    At the time of the City of Kansas's incorporation, Missouri was still a slave state. However, the population was deeply divided over the issue of slavery.In 1854, the United States Congress passed the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which rejected the 1820 Missouri Compromise and allowed new territories to choose whether they wished to allow slavery, whereas the Missouri Compromise had prohibited ...

  3. These are the most beautiful restaurants in Kansas and ... - AOL

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    Grünauer is a family owned Austrian restaurant in downtown Kansas City. Grünauer. The family behind the restaurant has owned and operated a traditional Viennese restaurant, Gasthaus Grünauer ...

  4. Hattiesburg, Mississippi - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .hattiesburgms .com. Hattiesburg is the 5th most populous city in the U.S. state of Mississippi, located primarily in Forrest County (where it is the county seat and most populous city) [4] and extending west into Lamar County. The city population was 45,989 at the 2010 census, [5] with the population now being 48,730 in 2020. [6]

  5. A guide to 19 of Kansas City’s oldest restaurants: Their food ...

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    Founded in 1949 at 520 W. 14th St., its name was inspired by the historic Kansas City stockyards just down the hill in the West Bottoms. In early 1964 it moved to its current spot just west of ...

  6. 18th and Vine – Downtown East, Kansas City - Wikipedia

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    18th and Vine is a neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri. It is internationally recognized as a historical point of origin of jazz music and a historic hub of African-American businesses. Along with Basin Street in New Orleans, Beale Street in Memphis, 52nd Street in New York City, and Central Avenue in Los Angeles, the 18th and Vine area ...

  7. St. Louis Union Station - Wikipedia

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    Designated NHL. December 30, 1970 [2] St. Louis Union Station is a National Historic Landmark and former train station in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. At its 1894 opening, the station was the largest in the world that had tracks and passenger service areas all on one level. Traffic peaked at 100,000 people a day in the 1940s. [3]

  8. Kansas City, Missouri - Wikipedia

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    Kansas City, Missouri ( KC or KCMO) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri by population and area. Most of the city lies within Jackson County, with portions spilling into Clay, Platte, and Cass counties. It is the central city of the Kansas City metropolitan area, which straddles the Missouri – Kansas state line and has a ...

  9. Fred Harvey (entrepreneur) - Wikipedia

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    Frederick Henry Harvey (June 27, 1835 – February 9, 1901) was an entrepreneur who developed the Harvey House lunch rooms, restaurants, souvenir shops, and hotels, which served rail passengers on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, the Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe Railway, the Kansas Pacific Railway, the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway, and the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis.