BlockRaymore Township
The complete chapter on this township from History of Cass County, Missouri, published 1917. 370 words, covering 2 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Contents
2 sectionsThe section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.
The modern record here
2 settlementsWhat the federal record holds for each settlement inside this township: wildfires and storm reports since the 1950s, mineral workings, and museum specimens collected nearby. These are counted within a few miles of each settlement, so neighbours share them and the columns are deliberately not added up. Every row links to the settlement's own page, where each figure is broken out.
Settlements in this township
2 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. 1 of the 2 is named in the chapter; the other was founded later or was never more than a post office.
The chapter
370 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from History of Cass County, Missouri, published 1917. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.
Raymore Township
When the good Lord made the earth He seemed to be partial to Ray more, situate near the central north line of the county, by estab¬ lishing her in the midst of a veritable garden. It is conceded by well informed people that the country contributory to this little town is of the very richest and most fertile. Close to a great market, ready and able to raise anything produced in the agricultural line, equipped with ample business concerns, well managed, what else can be said.
Raymore has a bank, the capital stock of which is not for sale, well managed, safe and sound. Good church edifices, well attended, high class of schools, low taxes and a happy people. Why shouldn't they be? Here are great investments. The purchaser will have to pay well for such. These intelligent people know the value of what they have.
Situate on the main line of the Missouri Pacific railroad, about seven miles east of Pleasant Hill, is Strasburg. The last government census gives its population at 350. It has very materially increased in business and population since that time. It has a bank, well managed and in healthy condition, financially. There is a large trade, tributary to the town and the merchants are doing well. A person can get his purchases as cheaply here as any place, and is at home. Home merchants who keep the goods, demand, and should have the trade of the tributary territory. This the Strasburg merchants get, for the reason they are fair in their dealings. The town rejoices in good school and church facilities.
West Line
This place is equipped with a first class small town bank, backed by ample capital and well managed. The surrounding country gives the town loyal support The town has had a hard, uphill pull since its start¬ ing. West Line came into existence with the advent of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railway, for a time flourished and seemed to loose ground.
Upon the building of the Kansas City and Southern railway, the town was given a new* impetus and is now in prospering condition. Here is a fine opening for persons seeking homes and investments, whether in the town or surrounding country.
Provenance
Text from History of Cass County, Missouri, published 1917, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.