Sedalia, Missouri For other places with this name, see Sedalia .
Sedalia, Missouri Former Third National Bank building positioned in downtown Sedalia Former Third National Bank building positioned in downtown Sedalia Location of Sedalia, Missouri Location of Sedalia, Missouri Sedalia, Missouri is a town/city located about 30 miles (48 km) south of the Missouri River in Pettis County.
As of the 2010 census, the town/city had a total populace of 21,387. As the governmental center of county of Pettis County, it is the principal town/city of the Sedalia Micropolitan Statistical Area, which consists of Pettis County.
Sedalia is also the locale of the Missouri State Fair and the Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival.
Sedalia in 1869 Historians believe the entire region around Sedalia was long occupied by the Osage (among historical American Indian tribes).
The region that became the European-American town/city of Sedalia was established by General George Rappeen Smith (1804 1879), who also established nearby Smithton, Missouri.
In the post-Civil War period, two barns s were constructed connecting it to other locations, and Sedalia interval at a rapid pace, with a rough energy of its travelers and cowboys.
In the late 19th century, Sedalia was well known as a center of vice, especially prostitution, which accompanied its large floating class of barns workers and commercial travelers.
Louis Post-Dispatch called Sedalia the "Sodom and Gomorrah of the nineteenth century." During World War II, the military assembled Sedalia Glider Base in Johnson County to the west.
Until the town/city was incorporated in 1860 as Sedalia, it had existed only "on paper" from November 30, 1857 to October 16, 1860.
According to small-town lore, the town council changed the name from Sedville to Sedalia in part because "towns that end in -ville don't amount to anything." In 1856 General Smith bought the territory upon which Sedalia now stands, and established the city.
Following a victory for those proposing the "ridge route" for the stockyards over those advocating the "river route", the stockyards reached Sedalia in January 1861. Sedalia's early prosperity was directly related to the barns industry.
During the spring and summer of 1866, some 260,000 head followed the trail to Sedalia, Missouri, the end of the Missouri Pacific Railroad." For nearly a century, Sedalia's economy was tied to the barns s.
By the end of the 19th century, the MK&T had various buildings and a wide range of workers in the city: the MK&T shops, stockyards, roundhouse, and the hospital for employees working in the Sedalia Division were among the Katy's properties in Sedalia.
Sedalia was made a military post early in the war and remained such until its close in 1865.
Confederate raids into Pettis County, and the offensive and defensive activities of Union troops against them, kept the inhabitants of Sedalia in high state of excitement.
During the Civil War, despite the existence of the Union soldiers guarding the barns , Sedalia was almost taken by the Confederate forces of Major General Sterling Price.
Shelby's Iron Brigade cavalry associated with Price's Missouri Expedition surrounded Sedalia, overpowered the Union militia under command of Colonel John D.
Jeff Thompson appeared in Sedalia, he ordered his men to stop the destruction and moved them on, leaving Sedalia in Union hands. While the Civil War delayed evolution of the town in some respects, Sedalia was the end of the barns for three years.
Once the war was over, many of the thousands of Union soldiers who had been stationed more or less permanently at Sedalia and recognized its potential, made the choice to migrate there from their former homes in other areas.
The Salvation Army opened its doors in Sedalia in 1886 with none other present that William Booth himself, having traveled all the way from London to attend the event.
When Captain George Parks was asked by The Sedalia Democrat why William Booth had purposed to locate "his salvation army" in Sedalia, Parks responded, "Because Sedalia is a desperately wicked town/city and if souls can be won to Christ in Sedalia, they can be won to Christ anywhere." Parks was later beaten so severely in downtown Sedalia that he traveled home to Chicago where he died nearly a year later from his wounds, making him the first martyr for The Salvation Army in the United States. The following Sedalia locations have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places: Missouri State Fairgrounds Historic District Sedalia Commercial Historic District Sedalia is positioned at 38 42'11" North, 93 13'52" West (38.702918, -93.231147). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 13.32 square miles (34.50 km2), of which 13.29 square miles (34.42 km2) is territory and 0.03 square miles (0.08 km2) is water. Sedalia had a populace of around 300 citizens in 1860, and what was described as a "bona fide population" of around 1,000 in 1865. Sedalia has recently turn into home to many immigrants from Russia or former Soviet bloc nations, who may account for up to 15% of the population. The Sedalia Public Library was the first Carnegie Grant awarded in Missouri.
Sedalia is home to the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, titled after its major benefactor, Sedalia radiologist and art collector Harold Daum.
Sedalia is also home to The Pettis County Museum and Historical Society, positioned at 228 Dundee Ave.
Since 1901, the Missouri State Fair has been held in Sedalia every August, with the exception of 1943 and 1944 because of World War II.
In 1974, the Missouri State Fairgrounds was the site of the Ozark Music Festival, one of the biggest but least remembered primary music celebrations of the 1970s.
In the American tv movie The Day After (1983), aired by ABC, Sedalia is finished when the Soviet Union attacks the Minuteman II Missile silos around the area.
At the time of the movie's release, 150 of the missiles were positioned in the Sedalia region in underground silos.
Sedalia was featured in two widely seen 1977 films: Heroes, starring Henry Winkler and Harrison Ford; and the made-for-TV movie Scott Joplin, starring Billy Dee Williams. Parts of the 1941 film Bad Men of Missouri are set in Sedalia.
Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival, Sedalia, 1990 Sedalia is well known as the adopted home of ragtime music's most well known musician and stylist Scott Joplin.
In 1935, in the midst of the depression which affected Sedalia severely, Abe Rosenthal along with some other music-loving inhabitants formed the Sedalia Symphony Society and established a Symphony orchestra, which, as the second earliest in Missouri, jubilated its 75th season in 2009 2010.
Sedalia has been the host to a several modern and roll affairs, such as the Ozark Music Festival in 1974, and the Delicious Rox Festival in 2006.
One of the 200 replicas was donated to Sedalia; and it was installed at the County Courthouse. Murray, 1937), the first Boy Scout Troop in Missouri (and one of the first in the nation) was formed in Sedalia in 1909, a year before the nationwide organization was officially chartered on February 8, 1910.
A number of newspapers have been presented in Sedalia, in alphabetical order: The Sedalia Advertiser (1864 1865) The Sedalia Bazoo (1881 1895) The Sedalia Capital The Sedalia Daily Democrat (1874 1925) The Sedalia Democrat (1949 ) The Sedalia Times KSDL 92.3 - FM (Sedalia) Smith, founder of Sedalia.
The Sedalia Business College and Institute of Penmanship was established in 1881.
Paul's Lutheran are also positioned in Sedalia.
Sedalia Regional Airport Sedalia (Amtrak station) Main article: List of Sedalia citizens People born in, living in, or otherwise associated with Sedalia are known as Sedalians.
Sedalia Air Force Base Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri.
"From Sedalia: It's Late Defence and Capture" (Missouri Democrat, October ?, 1864), History Sites Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad Depot NRHP nomination Missouri State Fairgrounds Historic District NRHP nomination Sedalia Commercial Historic District NRHP nomination Sedalia Public Library NRHP nomination The 1960 census had not been taken when this [centenary] history was written, but the 1960 populace of Sedalia was estimated to be between 28,000 and 30,000." The significance of the description of "bona fide population" is that "from 1861 to 1864 Missouri was under martial law and Sedalia, as a military post, was governed by the post commander.
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Ruger, A., "Bird's eye view of the town/city of Sedalia, Pettis Co., Missouri 1869". (eds), Women in Missouri History: In Search of Power and Influence, University of Missouri Press, (Columbia), 2004.
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