Prairie Village, Kansas

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Interstate 35 27 songs Missouri River 7 songs U.S. Route 59 3 songs

History of Prairie Village

Joe's Kansas City Bar-B-Que: World-Famous Barbecue Born in a Gas Station RoadyGoat

1996

Joe's Kansas City Bar-B-Que, at the corner of 47th and Mission in Kansas City, Kansas, is one of the most celebrated barbecue joints in America, and it lives inside a working gas station. It opened in August of 1996, founded by Jeff and Joy Stehney, whose competition team Slaughterhouse Five won grand championships on the barbecue circuit, including the American Royal. It first opened under the name Oklahoma Joe's and was renamed Joe's Kansas City Bar-B-Que in 2014. The food earned national fame: Anthony Bourdain put it on his list of thirteen places to eat before you die. The signature is the Z-Man, a sandwich of slow-smoked brisket, smoked provolone, and two onion rings on a kaiser roll, named for a Kansas City radio host called The Z-Man. People still line up at the gas-station counter for the brisket, the burnt ends, and the ribs. (Sources: Joe's Kansas City; Wikipedia; Entrepreneur; Men's Health via explore.com.)

RoadyGoat → · 3.6 mi away

Bleeding Kansas - The Border That Started the Civil War RoadyGoat

1854

The Kansas-Missouri border became the most violently contested line in America before the Civil War. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 let settlers vote on whether Kansas would be slave or free, effectively repealing the Missouri Compromise. Missouri, already a slave state, shared its entire western border with Kansas. Pro-slavery Missourians and anti-slavery Northerners both flooded in to tip the vote. On March 30, 1855, hundreds of armed Missourians called Border Ruffians crossed into Kansas and stuffed ballot boxes, installing a pro-slavery legislature by fraud. Anti-slavery settlers called Jayhawkers refused to recognize it and set up a rival government. On May 21, 1856, Border Ruffians sacked Lawrence, Kansas, burning buildings and destroying a newspaper press. Three days later, abolitionist John Brown retaliated at the Pottawatomie Massacre, dragging five pro-slavery settlers from their homes and hacking them to death with broadswords. Meanwhile in Washington, a South Carolina congressman walked onto the Senate floor and beat Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts nearly to death with a metal-tipped cane over a speech about Kansas. Sumner could not return for three years. About fifty-five people were killed in the territory between 1855 and 1859. Kansas was admitted as a free state on January 29, 1861, days after Southern senators began walking out. The border you are crossing is the line that Border Ruffians and Jayhawkers fought and died over.

8.1 mi away

Independence, MO RoadyGoat

Independence, Missouri, sits at an elevation that offers long views across the plains, a fitting vista for a place that once saw wagon trains stretching to the horizon. You can still feel that nostalgic pull here, the echo of a time when this was the last outpost of civilization for those heading west. Known as the "Queen City of the Trails," it was a jumping-off point for dreams of new lives, a place where families gathered supplies and steeled their resolve before venturing into the unknown. That journey wasn't always easy; the 1827 flood, a major setback, delayed westward expansion for months. The spirit of Independence extends far beyond its historical role. Community of Christ, with roots deeply embedded in the city's history, maintains its headquarters here. And while healthcare and social assistance are now major employers, it’s perhaps the legacy of leadership and athletic prowess that truly stands out.

14.0 mi away

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

1933

One of America's finest encyclopedic art museums, built from the bequests of Kansas City newspaper publisher William Rockhill Nelson and schoolteacher Mary Atkins.

4.7 mi away

National World War I Museum and Memorial

1926

The only museum in the United States dedicated to World War I, built around the Liberty Memorial tower that was dedicated in 1926 before a crowd of 100,000.

6.7 mi away

Kansas City Stockyards Site

1871

Once the second-largest livestock market in the world after Chicago, the Kansas City Stockyards processed millions of cattle and defined the city's identity for over a century.

8.8 mi away

Harry S. Truman Presidential Library

1957

The presidential library of Harry S. Truman in Independence, Missouri, where the 33rd president made some of the most consequential decisions of the 20th century.

13.5 mi away

Independence Square

1827

Independence served as the primary jumping-off point for the Oregon, California, and Santa Fe Trails, outfitting hundreds of thousands of westward emigrants.

13.6 mi away

Things to Do in Prairie Village

food 3.7 mi away
Joe's Kansas City BBQ

The Z-Man sandwich is legendary. Formerly Oklahoma Joe's. Inside a gas station.
historical 6.7 mi away
National WWI Museum

The nation's leading WWI museum. A glass bridge over a field of 9000 poppies.
food 8.1 mi away
Arthur Bryant's

The king of Kansas City BBQ since 1930. Presidents and celebrities line up for burnt ends.
historical 7.0 mi away
Crossroads Arts District

Kansas City's creative hub. Galleries bars and First Friday art walks.

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