A. A rare 1851 map that shows the area of Jackson County, Missouri only 25 years after the county was created. Locations shown: Fort Osage * Independence * Lone Jack * Oak Grove * Westport *

B. A map of 1899 Jackson County, Missouri showing the locations of 44 different settlements including all of the following: Adams * Atherton * Belt Junction * Belvidere * Blue Mill * Blue Springs * Buckner * Centropolis * Cockrell * Courtney * Dallas * Delavan * Dodson * Elm Park * Glendale * Grain Valley * Grandview * Greenwood * Hickman Mills (or Jeffreys Station) * Hicks City * Holmes Park * Independence * Kansas City * Lake City * Leeds * Lees Summit * Levasy * Lonejack (Lone Jack) * Martin City * Mastik Park * New Santa Fe * Oak Grove * Pink Hill * Pixleys * Raytown * Red Bridge * Rock Creek (or Lindenman Station) *  Sheffield * Sibley * Sni Mills * Tarsney * Waldo Junction * Westport * Whiteom *

C. A map of 1902 Jackson County, Missouri showing the locations of 29 different settlements including all of the following: Atherton * Belt Junction * Blue Springs * Buckner * Centropolis *  Dallas * Dodson * Glendale * Grain Valley * Grandview * Greenwood * Hickman Mills * Independence * Jeffreys Station * Kansas City * Lake City * Leeds * Lees Summit * Levasy * Lonejack (Lone Jack) * Martin City * Mt. Washington (Mount Washington) * New Santa Fe * Oakgrove (Oak Grove) * Redbridge (Red Bridge) * Sheffield * Sibley * Waldo Junction * Westport *

D. A map of 1904 Jackson County, Missouri showing the locations of 35 different settlements including all of the following: Acme * Atherton * Bluesprings (Blue Springs) * Buckner * Cockrell * Courtney * Dallas * Delavan * Dodson * Drakemore * Grain Valley * Grandview * Greenwood * Hickman Mills * Hicks City * Holmes Park * Independence * Kansas City * Lake City * Leeds * Lees Summit * Levasy * Littleblue (Little Blue) * Lonejack (Lone Jack) * Martin City * Mount Washington * New Santa Fe * Oakgrove (Oak Grove) * Sibley * Sni Mills * Swope * Tarsney * Twyman * Waldo * Westport Station *

E. A map of 1913 Jackson County, Missouri showing the locations of 30 different settlements including all of the following: Atherton * Belvidere * Blue Springs * Buckner * Cement City * Cockrell * Courtney * Dallas * Dodson * Grain Valley * Grandview * Greenwood * Hick's City * Hickman's Mills * Independence * Kansas City * Lake City * Lees Summit * Levasy * Little Blue * Lone Jack * Martin City * New Santa Fe * Oak Grove * Raytown * Sibley * Sni-Mills * Sugar Creek * Tarsney * Vale *

F. A map from the 1920’s which includes details of where various tourist sites and service stations were located.

G. A 1929 map from the Missouri Department of Transportation. You will be amazed at how many of the major routes were only dirt or gravel!

Book Two of three, all on one CD: The complete 1881 "History of Jackson County, Missouri" This detailed (1008 pages in all) book published by the Union Historical Company in 1881 has an incredible amount of information about Jackson County, Missouri from its earliest settlement up to 1881. This is an exact photo replica of all the pages pertaining to Jackson County, Missouri including all of the historical and biographical information. Included are a total of more than 915 different Jackson County, Missouri family biographies.
 

Partial index to contents (this is only a small portion of the topics covered in this book):

• Partial Contents:
• The History of Missouri
• The Civil War in Missouri
• Mormon Difficulties in Missouri
• History of Jackson County, Missouri
• Physical Features
• Geology, Botany, and Climate
• The Cyclone of 1879
• Early Settlements in Jackson County, Missouri
• The Establishment of Fort Osage
• Names of Jackson County Voters in 1828
• Organization of Jackson County
• Old Settlers of Jackson County
• The Santa Fe Trade
• Jackson County Officials
• First Record of Jackson County Marriages
• The Railroads in Jackson County
• Jackson County Poor Farm
• Jackson County Agriculture
• Schools and Colleges in Jackson County
• The Mormons in Jackson County
• The Civil War in Jackson County
• Jackson County Townships: Blue Township * Brooking Township * Fort Osage Township * Kaw Township * Prairie Township * Sni-A-Bar Township * Van Buren Township * Washington Township * Westport Township
• Early Settlement of Kansas City
• First Land Entries in Kansas City
• The Great Indian Trade
• The Santa Fe Trade
• The Railroads in Kansas City
• The Civil War in Kansas City
• Cities, Towns and Villages: Blue Mills * Blue Springs * Buckner * Grain Valley * Greenwood * Hickman’s Mills * Independence * Kansas City * Lake City * Lee’s Summit * Levasy * Little Blue * Livingston * Lone Jack * New Independence * New Santa Fe * Oak Grove * Pink Hill * Raytown * Sibley * Wayne City * Westport
• History of Wyandott, Kansas
• Jackson County Biographical Sketches (nearly 300 pages in this section)

The 1881 History of Jackson County, Missouri includes a total of  915 biographies including each of the following surnames: (several thousand other surnames are also mentioned throughout the text and within these biographies): (Note: This list is only the biographies included in the 1881 History of Jackson County, Missouri.  A list of 452 additional biographies included in the 1920 History of Jackson County, Missouri is listed below on this page.) Adams * Addison * Ahern * Aiken * Akers * Albright * Alderson * Alexander * Allen * Anderson * Angell * Anthony * Armstrong * Arnold * Arthur * Asbury * Austin * Bailey * Baird * Baker * Baldwin * Bales * Barker * Barkley * Barnes * Bartlett * Bauerlein * Baxter * Bayne * Beatty * Beaver * Beedle * Beets * Beggs * Bennett * Bent * Bernard * Bernhard * Betts * Bicking * Bingham * Blair * Blum * Boggs * Bogie * Bohannon * Boon * Boone * Bouscaren * Bower * Bowers * Bowser * Boylan * Brabrook * Bradley * Brannock * Briant * Brizendine * Brooking * Brooks * Brown * Bryant * Buffington * Bullene * Bullord * Bunker * Burd * Burk * Burnett * Burrus * Bush * Byers * Bynum * Caldwell * Calhoon * Calhoun * Campbell * Cannady * Cannon * Capell * Carle * Carlile * Carman * Case * Casey * Cash * Cassell * Castle * Cecinger * Chace * Chamberlain * Chambers * Chapman * Charles * Chellis * Chew * Child * Chiles * Chilton * Chrisman * Christison * Clark * Clary * Cobb * Coddington * Coe * Collings * Collins * Conlon * Connely * Cook * Coon * Corlew * Corn * Cowart * Cowherd * Cox * Craig * Crane * Cross * Cruthers * Crysler * Culver * Cunningham * Curren * Cusenbary * Daenzer * Dalton * Daniels * Dannaker * Darby * Davenport * Davis * Dawson * Dehoney * Delany * Deller * DeLong * Dennis * Dickerson * Dickinson * Dillingham * Dimmitt * Ditsch * Diveley * Dixon * Doane * Dobbins * Dodson * Dofflemyer * Donnelly * Douglass * Downing * Downs * Dragon * Driggs * Dripps * Drought * Duffield * Dufner * Duke * Duncan * Dunham * Dunn * Dupuy * Durrin * Easley * Eby * Eckles * Edmondson * Ellenberger * Ellis * Elston * Endres * Eneberg * Entrekin * Eppstein * Ervin * Esslinger * Estill * Ewing * Fairweather * Fann * Farley * Farrand * Ferguson * Fitzpatrick * Flanagan * Fleming * Foerschler * Forbis * Ford * Foster * Fountain * Fradenburg * Franklin * Freeman * Frick * Frink * Fuchs * Funk * Fuqua * Gardener * Gardner * Garlinghouse * Garney * Garrett * Garuhart * Gaston * Gates * Gaugh * Gentry * George * Ghormley * Gibson * Gilchrist * Gill * Gillespie * Gillham * Gish * Glasner * Glenn * Goodwin * Goshen * Gosnell * Graham * Granfield * Grant * Graves * Gray * Green * Greene * Greenlee * Greeno * Greenwood * Gregg * Gregory * Griffith * Grimes * Guinotte * Hackett * Haefner * Hafner * Hahn * Haines * Hains * Hair * Haire * Hale * Hall * Hallett * Hamilton * Hammerslough * Hammond * Hanlon * Harby * Harding * Hare * Hargreaves * Harner * Harrington * Harris * Hartman * Hasbrook * Haskell * Hayden * Haynes * Heckard * Hedges * Heg * Hellman * Hendrickson * Hennessy * Herold * Herrington * Heun * Hewson * Hiatt * Hicklin * Hicks * Hiffner * Hightower * Higley * Hill * Hinkson * Hire * Hobbs * Hoerseman * Hogard * Holbert * Holbrook * Holden * Holloway * Holmes * Hoover * Hope * Hopson * Horton * Hough * House * Hovelman * Howard * Howe * Hudson * Hudspeth * Hughes * Hull * Hunt * Hunter * Huntington * Hurst * Hutchison * Hylton * Inlow * Irwin * Jackson * Jacques * James * Jamison * Jandon * Jarboe * Jarrett * Jenkins * Jerome * Jessup * Johns * Johnson * Johnstone * Jones * Jost * Joyce * Judd * Kabrick * Kaster * Keck * Kelly * Kemper * Kendall * Kennedy * Kenyon * Kerby * Kern * Keshlear * Kimbelin * King * Kingsbury * Kinsey * Kirby * Kirk * Kirkton * Kittle * Klapmeyer * Knapp * Knight * Knoche * Knoepker * Knowles * Knox * Kramer * Krauss * Kreeger * Kriegel * Kritzer * Kronhart * Krull * Kuechler * Kump * Kumpf * Kuntz * Landis * Larey * Larkin * Laws * Leader * Lee * Leffler * Lester * Leveridge * Lewis * Lippert * Lipscomb * Livesay * Lobb * Long * Looney * Love * Lowe * Lucas * MacDonald * Mackenzie * Mackin * Maddin * Maddox * Maegly * Mainhardt * Mallinson * Mann * Marshall * Martin * Mason * Masters * Mastin * Mather * Maxwell * McAlpine * McAnany * McBride * McCalvy * McClelland * McCollum * McCullough * McCune * McCurdy * McDearmon * McDonald * McDowell * McGee * McGibbons * McGrath * McKinley * McLeod * McMain * McNees * McNellis * McNutt * McPherson * McVay * Mensing * Meriwether * Merrill * Merstetter * Middlebrook * Miller * Millspaugh * Mitchell * Mitchener * Mock * Modie * Money * Montgomery * Moore * Morgan * Morris * Morrison * Morrow * Mott * Muehlebach * Mulkey * Mullett * Murphy * Murray * Myer * Neely * Neir * Nelson * Newlon * Nicholson * Noble * Noland * Northrup * Nye * O'Flaherty * Olin * O'Mara * Orendorff * Overton * Owen * Owens * Owings * Painter * Parker * Parr * Patterson * Patton * Payne * Peery * Peet * Pendleton * Pennycook * Perkins * Phillips * Pierce * Pierson * Poll * Pollock * Poor * Porter * Poteet * Powell * Prevost * Pryor * Pugsley * Raber * Ragan * Raggsdale * Randolph * Ranson * Raub * Rayburn * Reed * Reid * Renick * Reton * Reyburn * Rheem * Rice * Richardson * Riddell * Ridge * Riederen * Riggins * Rogers * Ross * Rowe * Ruckel * Rumann * Russell * Rust * Ryan * Ryley * Ryus * Saalborn * Sage * Sager * Saighman * Sale * Salisbury * Salmon * Saunders * Sawyer * Sayers * Scarritt * Schell * Schueler * Schultz * Schultze * Schureman * Scott * Scoville * Scruggs * Sea * Seaman * Sechrist * Seitz * Self * Sessions * Sewell * Shanks * Shannon * Sharp * Shaw * Shawhan * Shea * Sheldon * Sheley * Shelton * Shepherd * Shipley * Sholes * Short * Shough * Shouse * Shrock * Shroeder * Shrout * Shue * Shull * Simon * Simpson * Sinclair * Siverwright * Skelton * Slack * Slater * Slaughter * Slocomb * Small * Smart * Smith * Soule * Southern * Spalding * Speck * Sprague * Springer * Spruill * Squier * St. Clair * Staples * Stark * Stevenson * Stewart * Stine * Stinson * Stockton * Stoeltzing * Stoller * Stone * Stoner * Storall * Storms * Stout * Stumpf * Stumpff * Sturdevant * Suits * Surface * Swain * Sweeney * Tate * Taylor * Teed * Teegardin * Thilenius * Thomas * Thompson * Thornton * Threlkeld * Tindall * Tobener * Todd * Townsend * Towt * Trefren * Trost * Trow * Truman * Tucker * Turner * Twyman * Tyer * Underwood * Van Horn * Van Hoy * Van Meter * Vaughn * Vincent * Vineyard * Vogel * Von Unworth * Wagner * Waite * Walker * Wallace * Walmsley * Walpole * Wamsley * Ward * Warder * Warneke * Warner * Warnky * Watson * Watts * Webb * Webster * Weis * Welden * West * Weston * Wheat * White * Whitehead * Whiting * Wigginton * Wilkin * Williams * Williamson * Wilson * Wise * Withers * Witherspoon * Wofford * Wolter * Wolters * Womacks * Wood * Woods * Woodson * Wornall * Worthington * Wright * Wyatt * Yager * Yankee * Yates * Yeoman * Young *

Book Three of three, all on one CD: The complete 1920 "History of Jackson County, Missouri" This detailed (936 pages in all) book by W.Z. Hickman and published by the Historical Publishing Company in 1920 has a considerable amount of additional information about Jackson County, Missouri from its earliest settlement up to 1920. This is an exact photo replica of all the pages pertaining to Jackson County, Missouri including all of the historical and biographical information. Included are a total of more than 452 different Jackson County, Missouri family biographies.
 

Partial index to contents (this is only a small portion of the topics covered in this book):

• The Louisiana Purchase
• The Indian Treaty of 1808
• The Indian Treaty of 1825
• Location and Early Settlement of Jackson County
• Establishment of Fort Osage and Sibley
• Physical Features
• Organization of Jackson County Townships
• The Santa Fe Trail
• Marking the Santa Fe Trail in Jackson County
• First Jackson County Buildings
• Jackson County Court House
• Jackson County Jail
• Early Records of Jackson County
• First Record of Jackson County Marriages
• First Jackson County Warranty Deeds
• Early Jackson County Land Entries
• First Jackson County Road Records
• First Ferry in Jackson County
• First Sale of Lots in Jackson County
• Jackson County in the Mexican War
• Roster of Soldiers from Jackson County
• Pioneer Churches of Jackson County
• Jackson County Steamboat Days
• The Civil War in Jackson County
• Pioneer Times in Jackson County
• Old Settlers of Jackson County
• Miscellaneous Details
• Jackson County Biographical Sketches (very detailed, 530 pages in this section)

The 1920 History of Jackson County, Missouri includes a total of 452 biographies including each of the following surnames: (several thousand other surnames are also mentioned throughout the text and within these biographies): (Note: This list is only the biographies included in the 1920 History of Jackson County, Missouri.  A list of 915 additional biographies included in the 1881 History of Jackson County, Missouri is listed above on this page.)  Adams * Ahmann * Alexander * Allen * Amos * Baldus * Barclay * Barr * Becker * Beets * Bennett * Betts * Binger * Blackburn * Blackwell * Boland * Borgman * Bostian * Boswick * Boten * Botts * Bowin * Bowling * Bracht * Bradley * Brady * Bronson * Browing * Brown * Brownfield * Browning * Bryant * Burnley * Burton * Bynum * Campbell * Capelle * Carel * Carr * Carson * Casey * Cave * Charlton * Chiles * Chrisman * Clark * Clay * Cogswell * Cole * Collier * Colton * Compton * Conboy * Cook * Corey * Corthell * Crawford * Crenshaw * Crick * Crump * Cruwell * Cummings * Curran * Dalton * Daniels * Dark * Davis * Debord * DeCourcey * DeWitt * Dieckmann * Dillingham * Dimoush * Dooley * Douglas * Dryden * Dudgeon * Duke * Dyer * Eckles * Elliot * Fender * Fields * Fishback * Fisher * Fleischman * Flowers * Fonda * Forsythe * Foster * Fowlkes * Fraher * Franklin * Fuchs * Gaines * Ganz * Gausman * Gentry * George * Gessley * Goodloe * Gordon * Gore * Gould * Graves * Gray * Grubb * Hagan * Hall * Hallar * Halleran * Harcourt * Harder * Harding * Hare * Harrington * Harris * Harvey * Hausam * Haynes * Hedrick * Helm * Hiffner * Hifner * Hilburn * Hill * Hock * Hodges * Hoke * Hook * Hornbuckle * House * Howard * Hudnall * Hudson * Hudspeth * Hullinger * Hulse * Jackson * James * Jenkins * Johnson * Jones * Kabrick * Kelley * Kelly * Kemper * Kerr * Ketterman * Kimsey * Kirby * Kissel * Knox * Koehler * Koger * Kritser * Lambert * Lane * Latimer * Leeka * Leinweber * Lenox * Lentz * Lewis * Lightfoot * Lindsay * Livesay * Loar * Long * Lowe * Luttrell * Maddox * Major * Majors * Maness * Mann * Marquette * Martin * Maupin * May * Mayhan * McBride * McCormick * McCumber * McCurdy * McGraw * McKeever * McKitterick * Mercer * Mershon * Miles * Miller * Milner * Milton * Mindrup * Montgomery * Moore * Mosely * Mueller * Mulligan * Necessary * Neer * Neininger * Nesbitt * Noel * Norris * O'Donnell * Ott * Owen * Owens * Owings * Parsons * Peck * Peelle * Pemberton * Pendleton * Perkins * Perrin * Peterson * Phelps * Phillips * Pittenger * Porter * Potts * Powell * Pressly * Prewitt * Procter * Propst * Ragsdale * Rahe * Ramsey * Randall * Reber * Records * Renick * Rice * Ritter * Rogers * Rood * Round * Rowe * Rowland * Ryan * Salisbury * Sample * Sappenfield * Sawyer * Scarborough * Schowengerdt * Schulenberg * Schuster * Scoville * Searcy * Sechrest * Sermon * Sewell * Sheley * Shepherd * Shore * Short * Shoup * Slaughter * Sloan * Smith * Snider * Southern * St. Clair * Stayton * Steele * Stephens * Stewart * Stock * Stockwood * Stone * Strode * Strodtman * Sullivan * Switzer * Swope * Talley * Tatum * Thomas * Thomason * Thompson * Tierney * Todd * Totten * Triplett * Tucker * Tudor * Turner * Twyman * Ucker * Vaughan * Vermillion * Vest * Ware * Watkins * Webb * Welch * White * Willsey * Wilson * Winfrey * Witthar * Wood * Woodson * Yankee * Yetter * Young *

Jackson County, Missouri is located in the West Central portion of Missouri and is surrounded by the following counties: Cass County, Missouri * Ray County, Missouri * Lafayette County, Missouri * Clay County, Missouri * Johnson County, Missouri * Johnson County, Kansas * and Wyandotte County, Kansas (click on highlighted county names for a complete description)

Each of the three books on this CD is in Adobe Acrobat pdf format and require the free Acrobat Reader program to view. You probably already have this program on your computer but if not, a free copy of the program is included on the CD. Each of the books on CD is designed to look just like a regular book and is bookmarked to move easily and quickly from one section another. This CD will operate on any Pentium or equivalent computer with a CD drive. This CD was designed by, and is available exclusively from Hearthstone Legacy Publications.

The cost for this CD containing all three books described above is only $9.95 plus shipping. A large amount of information for very little cost! A truly fascinating view of Jackson County, Missouri from its first settlement to 1920. Includes considerable information concerning the Civil War period in and around Jackson County, Missouri.