Kansas City, Missouri is incorporated by Jackson…
September 1850 CE
After the 1804 Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark had visited the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers, noting it was a good place to build a fort.
In 1831, a group of Mormons from New York had settled in what will become the city.
They built the first school within Kansas City's current boundaries, but were forced out by mob violence in 1833 and their settlement remained vacant.
In 1833 John McCoy, son of missionary Isaac McCoy, established West Port along the Santa Fe Trail, three miles (four point eight kilometers) away from the river.
In 1834 McCoy established Westport Landing on a bend in the Missouri to serve as a landing point for West Port.
Soon after, the Kansas Town Company, a group of investors, began to settle the area, taking their name from an English spelling of "Cansez."
In 1850, the landing area is incorporated as the Town of Kansas.
By this time, the Town of Kansas, Westport, and nearby Independence, have become critical points in the United States' westward expansion.
Three major trails‚the Santa Fe, California, and Oregon—all pass through Jackson County.
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