Stop 9-Big Blue Battlefield, West
[Waypoint 39.016710 -94.525368]
This tour stop is located at 5951 Manchester Trafficway in Kansas City, Missouri. Return to your car on Hardesty Avenue and drive south to E 63rd Street. Turn right (west) onto E 63rd Street. After 0.5 miles, turn right (north) at the traffic light onto Manchester Trafficway. Stay on Manchester Trafficway as it turns to the right (east) crossing the railroad tracks. Just after the tracks, the road turns to the north. Take the first right onto E 60th Street. Pull into the small parking lot in front of the small yellow warehouse. The building is part of the battlefield park and is scheduled for eventual removal. There are four historical markers installed at this location. Three are associated with other tour stops while one will be its own tour stop.
This stop is a convenient location for walking to other tour stops on this side of the river. The tour stops in this part of the tour are located within the Big Blue Battlefield Park. You are standing in the middle of what was a large open area. Look around and you can see this part of the battlefield is in varying states of restoration.
You are in the middle of an industrial park that was developed in the 1950s and 1960s. Some of the buildings have been acquired or are in the process of being acquired by the Monnett Fund. Once a building is acquired, it is scheduled for demolition, followed by site restoration to battlefield conditions.
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