Nichols leased of the ancestral home of the Wakefield family just west of the west end of Main Street at Tenth Street. It took a year or more to build the two large frame buildings that housed the Sanitorium when it first opened for business. Perry Nichols, with a nation-wide reputation as a cancer specialist, had purchased the thirty acres of the Eli Beaghler property "at the foot of Christian Ridge" and would build a cancer sanitorium there as soon as possible. The first courthouse was east of the current location and was a log-hewn structure and stood on the corner of Sixth and Market streets, present location of the Christian Church.įrom "The Andrew County Republican," dated March 1, 1912, we find this front-page article: "The greatest thing for Savannah, in a business way, since the building of the Interurban, came this week so quietly that many of our people knew nothing of it until the site had been purchased." In Savannah's past are two tanneries, two plow manufacturers a harrow factory and a pottery, all of which are out of business. Savannah began as a rural community with merchantile interests. The original town of Savannah consisted of 49 blocks - seven blocks square today Savannah stretches a mile in all directions. Samuel was a native Georgian who loved the Savannah of his home state. While organized in 1841, Savannah's original name was Union, but changed it's name later that year as a courtesy to one member of the county court: Samuel Crowley.
By this purchase the boundary line for Missouri became the Missouri River from Kansas City northward to the Iowa line. The Platte was the territory in the northwest corner of Misour which had been purchased from the Sac and Fox Indians in 1836. Savannah was established in 1841 as an inland village hewn out of the surrounding wilderness as part of the Platte Purchase. Cities Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities Template:WikiProject Cities WikiProject Cities articles If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. This article is within the scope of WikiProject Cities, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of cities, towns and various other settlements on Wikipedia. This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.
This article has been rated as Start-Class on the project's quality scale. Missouri Wikipedia:WikiProject Missouri Template:WikiProject Missouri Missouri articles
If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. This article is part of WikiProject Missouri, a WikiProject related to the U.S.
0 kommentar(er)
