Excelsior Springs, Missouri Excelsior Springs, Missouri Hall of Waters (now City Hall) Hall of Waters (now City Hall) Location of Excelsior Springs, Missouri Location of Excelsior Springs, Missouri Excelsior Springs is a town/city in Clay and Ray counties in the U.S.
The populace was 11,084 at the 2010 census. It is positioned approximately 30 miles (48 km) northeast of central Kansas City, Missouri.
Excelsior Springs is positioned at 39 20 29 N 94 13 51 W (39.341492, -94.230716), along the East Fork Fishing River.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 10.45 square miles (27.07 km2), of which, 10.43 square miles (27.01 km2) is territory and 0.02 square miles (0.05 km2) is water. Excelsior Springs, Missouri as it appeared on July 14, 1886 Excelsior Springs came into existence due to the natural spring water that gushed forth from the depths of the earth. It was identified by accident in 1880 by a farmer, Travis Mellion, when his daughter Opal fell ill with a form of tuberculosis.
John Van Buren Flack traveled here in 1880 after hearing about the medicinal values of the spring water.
After Flack investigated the water sources, he advised Wyman to have the territory platted, water analyzed, and to begin advertising the cures the water held.
The postal service at the time denied the initial town name of "Excelsior", as there was already a town in southern Missouri with that name, therefore the town was titled originally Vigniti.
The town/city kept the name until 1882, when it was retitled Excelsior Springs.
Farris, first called Empire Spring but later known as Regent Spring.
Yet a third spring, Relief Spring, was identified at the watershed in the Fishing River.
In a short span of time, many springs were identified in the area, the most prominent being the Relief, Superior, and Saratoga springs.
A pump was installed at the Siloam Spring, and steps from Broadway Street and the city's first hotel, the Excelsior, were constructed.
No town/city in Missouri had boomed as much as Excelsior Springs had in the first year of existence.
The city's first hotel, the Excelsior, was assembled with a foundation of 30 ft (9.1 m) by 70 feet (21 m), and locals wondered if a hotel that size would ever be filled to capacity.
The Excelsior opened its doors for company on March 1, 1881, and quickly proved that it could be filled, with many visitors coming to the small town seeking out the medicinal value to the waters held, many from as far away as St.
Iowa, Chicago & Eastern Railroad's locomotive #6414 (engine labeled "City Of Excelsior Springs").
Paul barns extended its line from Chicago to Kansas City via Excelsior Springs.
A larger pavilion with benches and hooks for cups was placed at Siloam Spring where visitors could partake in the water; soon these mugs became stained due to the high iron content of the water.
His finding reported the Siloam and Regent spring waters to have bicarbonates of iron and manganese, a rare combination that had only been found in four springs in the entire continent of Europe, and Excelsior Springs held the only two known in the United States.
The rarity of having 20 separate mineral springs inside the region gave Excelsior Springs the reputation of having the world's greatest compilation of mineral waters.
Mineral water resorts of the time rarely held such range, most only mineral water baths, but Excelsior Springs held four distinct types of treatment inside the region of tonic, alternative, and eliminative treatments, along with the mineral water baths.
The town/city received global attention in 1893 at the Chicago's World Fair when medals were awarded for the iron-manganese water from the Regent Spring and Soterian ginger ale.
Fires finished the Excelsior Hotel and the Elms Hotel, leaving only boarding homes to take in visitors.
This brought the Excelsior Springs Golf Course and the assembly of many structures including the Masonic Hall, auditorium, Odd Fellows Building, and Morse buildings.
The expansion of enhance utilities and a fitness of highways connecting Excelsior Springs and Kansas City helped the town/city thrive.
The day of August 6, 1925, proved to be one of Excelsior Springs' darkest moments.
The Excelsior Springs Call journal reported that Mitchell was guilty of stealing cattle, but not the crime he was hung for. The Great Depression did not have the impact on Excelsior Springs as it had on a several other communities, surviving mostly due to its community resort status.
Excelsior Springs, Missouri City Hall, generally known as The Hall of Waters.
The present town/city hall, the Hall of Waters, was constructed between 1936 and 1938 by architects Keene & Simpson above the Siloam and Sulpho-Saline Springs.
By 1967, the bottling operations had lost $25,000, and the town/city decided it was time to put their mineral water history behind them and move forward to new horizons.
As of 2008, however, Excelsior Springs has licensed the rights to the mineral water to Excelsior Springs Bottling Company to allow for commercial bottling and distribution of the historic water. In addition to the Elms Hotel and Hall of Waters, the Colonial Hotel, The Elms Historic District, Excelsior Springs Hall of Waters Commercial East Historic District, Excelsior Springs Hall of Waters Commercial West Historic District, First Methodist Church, Ligon Apartments, Watkins Mill, and Wyman School are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Excelsior Springs sports a quaint historic downtown district, which is presently undergoing renewed development.
Additionally, it is home to two theaters: The Paradise Playhouse, home to experienced productions; and The Slightly Off-Broadway Theater, home to Excelsior Springs' small-town improve theatre productions. James Benton Grant (1848 1911), 3rd governor of Colorado from 1883 to 1885, died in Excelsior Springs.
Brenda Joyce (1917 2009), actress, born in Excelsior Springs, best known as playing "Jane" in five Tarzan movies between 1945 and 1949.
Donald Judd (1928 1994), visual artist, born in Excelsior Springs.
Shaun Marcum, (born 1981), Major League Baseball starting pitcher for the Cleveland Indians Raised in Excelsior Springs, he participated in high school baseball, football and wrestling.
Lyle Waggoner, (born 1935), actor, sculptor, raised in Excelsior Springs.
Gregg Williams (born 1958), football coach, born in Excelsior Springs, he started at quarterback on the football team in 1973-75, and also played high school baseball.
The movie was filmed in Excelsior Springs, as well as in Cameron, Missouri.
In 1974, the National Civic League chose Excelsior Springs as an All-America City, reinvigorating this small town somewhat. The Greater Excelsior Springs Area conducted centennial celebrations in 1980. "Race, Hispanic or Latino, Age, and Housing Occupancy: 2010 Enumeration Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171) Summary File (QT-PL), Excelsior Springs city, Missouri".
"Excelsior Springs Standard Archive".
"Excelsior Springs Bottling Company - Home".
"Excelsior Springs Theatre".
"Excelsior Springs Museum & Archives, Excelsior Springs, MO - Greater Excelsior Springs Centennial".
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