Merriaham, Kansas Brief History

Merriam has a long innovation and diversity history in Johnson County. The area was first lived by the Kaw tribe until the 1820s he entered the West after the expansion of various contracts and the West. Ohio and Missouri’s Shawnee tribe also affected the region in 1826 in 1826 after displaced immigration. In the early 1830s, the other two missions in the area – today’s mission, the poachee methodologist mission, which could still be visited on the site on the site, was opened.

Merriam’s origin began in 1864 a woman named Mary Parks, a woman named Mary Parks, a white man from Tennessee, when they sold the land to David Gee Campbell. It is not known about both sides, but the surrounding city was first named Campbellon. The city’s name was in 1870 and was short-term because it was changed to the name of the city’s economic prospects. Charles Merriam, who was secretary for the city name, Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf Rail, was changed to Merriam.

Merriam has long been at the natural rest of Johnson County, including Merriam Park (1880), Hocker Grove Entertainment Park (1907) and Antioch Park (1959). These parks are based on rural areas and trolley lines from Missouri for cities to avoid a short road from the city. Merriam Park, especially with President Ulysses S., gave the grant to the Grant. In 1881, George Kessler, who prepared a beautiful system of beautiful parks and boulevars in the city of Kansas City, was hired as a landscape architect for 40 acres.

Merriam’s national impact Webb vs. School district 290 court lawsuits (1949) came up. This school has served as a precursor of Brown and Topeka Education Management, which has a separation event, changing the education system of our nation. Corinti Nuter, a teacher at the Rainy Walker School; Community member Esther Brown; Thirty-nine Walker school student, these students struggled to connect with white children in a newly built South Park school. You can learn more about the Johnson County Library ‘former Prologue’ program.

-Andan Wahlmeier, Johnson County Library