Shawnee, Osage, and Kansa once lived on the land that is now Prairie Village, part of the Kansas City, Missouri, metro area. As settlers moved west, families stopped to farm in and around the area. In the 1940s, the land was turned into housing for returning servicemen and their familie...
A suburb of St. Louis, Kirkwood advertises itself as a walkable, bikeable community. It was built after the St. Louis Fire of 1849, when theKirkwood Associationbought 240 acres of land along the route of the new Missouri Pacific Railroad and named the community after James Kirkwood, the ra...