Rosedale, Kansas

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Wyandotte County, Kansas 1899 Map from History of Kansas by Noble Prentis.

Rosedale, Kansas is a community of Kansas City, Kansas, in the southeast corner of Wyandotte County and bordered on the north by the Kansas River and the Armourdale neighborhood, on the south by Johnson County, on the west by the Argentine neighborhood, and on the east by the state of Missouri. It is home to the Rosedale World War I Memorial Arch and the University of Kansas Medical Center.

History

Rosedale originated as "The Town of Rosedale, Shawnee Township" in 1872. In 1875, a new population requirement of 600 persons was established to become a "City of the Third Class" in Kansas. A petition was presented to Hiram Stevens, Judge of the Tenth Judicial District (Wyandotte, Johnson and Miami counties). The judge issued an order for incorporating the village as a city and election of officers was held August 28, 1877. The new city was named "The City of Rosedale, Kansas."

By 1897 the area known as Rosedale had a population of over 2,000 inhabitants. Rosedale remained an independent city until it was annexed by Kansas City, Kansas in 1922.

Notable people

• James P. Cannon, founding leader of the Socialist Workers Party.
• Frank L. Hagaman, former Governor of Kansas

Site

• Rosedale World War I Memorial Arch, memorial for World War I veterans of Rosedale, Kansas
• Boulevard Drive-In, drive-in movie theater that has been in operation since 1950, showing movies every weekend during the summer
• Sauer Castle, legendary haunted house
• University of Kansas Medical Center
• University of Kansas School of Medicine
• University of Kansas Hospital
• Vox Theatre, formerly a silent movie theatre, turned event space

Further reading

• Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas - Historical and Biographical; Goodspeed Publishing Co; 932 pages; 1890.
• The Winding Valley and The Craggy Hillside: A History of the City of Rosedale, Kansas by Margaret Landis, Copyright 1976. [1]

External links

• Rosedale Development Association