Kansas City (US-MO)

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Kansas City is the largest city in the U.S. State of Missouri and the sixth largest city in the Midwest. Sitting on Missouri's western border, with Downtown near the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri RiversKansas City, Missouri, was officially incorporated as a town on June 1, 1850, and as a city on March 28, 1853. The territory straddling the border between Missouri and Kansas at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers was considered a good place to build settlements. The first documented European visitor to Kansas City was Étienne de Veniard, Sieur de Bourgmont, who was also the first European to explore the lower Missouri River. Criticized for his response to the Native American attack on Fort Détroit, he had deserted his post as fort commander and was avoiding French authorities. Bourgmont lived with a Native American wife in a village about 90 miles (140 km) east near Brunswick, Missouri, where he illegally traded furs.

Postmark Examples

Commemorative postmark ASMC station, PDI '94, 2 Jun 1994

Commemorative postmark the 18th & Vine Historic Jazz District, American Jazz Museum, 30 Apr 2011

Commemorative postmark 1998 NCAA women's final four, 27 Mar 1998

Precancels

Precancel Kanses City on Scott 552, Franklin. c.1923

Precancel Kanses City on Scott 564, Cleveland. c.1923

Precancel Kanses City on Scott 708, Washington. c.1932

Precancel Kanses City on Scott 803, Franklin. c.1938

Precancel Kanses City on Scott 805, Martha Washington. c.1938

Precancel Kanses City on Scott 809. The White House. c.1938

Precancel Kanses City on Scott 1030, Franklin. c.1955.

Meter cancels

Meter cancel 1937

Meter cancel 1937

First Day Covers

KANSAS CITY in 1978

KANSAS CITY in 1978