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Was Lee’s Summit, Missouri by KC named after Robert E Lee? | Kansas City Star
An 1870 map of Jackson County showing Big Cedar, Strother and Lee’s Summit KANSAS CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY Many assume Lee’s Summit was named for Confederate General Robert E. Lee, and a reader ...
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SERIOUS RAILROAD ACCIDENT.; A Train on the Kansas Pacific Run Into--Six Persons Killed and Several Wounded. (Published 1870) - The New York Times
A terrible accident occurred at the west end of the Kansas Pacific Railroad track last night. A heavily, loaded iron train getting beyond the control of the men, in consequence of the iron ...