A steamboat travels past the Hannibal Bridge as it was being constructed in 1869 in Kansas City, Mo. Kansas City Star archives Uniquely KC is a Star series exploring what makes Kansas City special.

Harlem is located on the north bank of the Missouri River near the downtown airport. Then in 1927, Municipal Airport (now the ...

a collaboration between The Kansas City Star and the Kansas City Public ... At the time, motorists could choose between the Hannibal Bridge and the Armour-Swift-Burlington (ASB) Bridge, both ...

Arguably the most emblematic bridge in Kansas City — or at least the one people ... Heart of America bridges to the east, and the Hannibal Railway and Buck O’Neil bridges to the west.

The Hannibal Bridge opened in 1869 ... The last thing they wanted was a bridge. Kansas City survived and thrived after devastating floods. In 1883 and 1898, Missouri River waters consumed lowlands ...

After the completion of the Hannibal Bridge in 1869, Kansas City’s booming West Bottoms offered plenty of work in packing houses and iron foundries. Pendergast answered the call, arriving in 1876.

One notable tragedy was the destruction of the Platte River Bridge in ... in some cities like Kansas City and Leavenworth. However, before the bridges were built, the Hannibal and St. Joseph ...

Scroll through our archive images that show the process of the Hannibal Bridge being built in Kansas City in the late 1860s. It’s rare to have so many photographs in The Star’s archive from ...