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Prairie View Stock Farm
Prairie View Stock Farm, also known as the Bluestem Ranch, is a historic farm and national Historic district (United States), historic district in western Missouri located near Rich Hill, Missouri, Rich Hill; it covers territory in both Bates County, Missouri, Bates and Vernon County, Missouri, Vernon counties. The district encompasses four contributing buildings, three contributing sites, and two contributing structures in a Rural Historic Landscape District. The contributing sites include a hay meadow, a tall-fescue prairie, and a 160-acre plot of native, tall-grass prairie. It is a state-designated Prairie View Natural Area. The contributing buildings are a transverse-crib barn/grain house (c. 1879), a barn/feeding facility, a two-story, frame, folk Victorian architecture, Victorian house (1893-1894); and a frame outhouse, privy (1893-1894). The contributing structures are a storm cellar (1893-1894) and an arbor (garden), arbor (c. 1895). (includes 26 photographs from 2015) It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rich Hill, Missouri
Rich Hill is a city in southern Bates County, Missouri, and is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area within the United States. The population was 1,232 at the 2020 census. History Rich Hill was platted in 1880. The city was named in 1871 by C.W. Ratekin and used the slogan "The Town That Coal Built". The town experienced a rapid population expansion during the late 1800s, until mining efforts began to decline and eventually ended in 1906. The mining effort was renewed by Peabody Energy in the 1950s. The Prairie View Stock Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. Geography Rich Hill is located on Missouri Route A adjacent to the west side of US Route 71 eleven miles south of Butler. The Bates- Vernon county line is 2.5 miles to the south. The upper reaches of the Truman Reservoir are two miles east on the Marais des Cygnes River. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. Demogra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |