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Ray's Town
09.08.05.....[C]2005 by Richard L Zorek.....
Raytown (or the land it now sits on) was added to Missouri at a cost of $800 by a treaty signed in 1826, a year before Jackson County was formed. A large area of the county, Township 49, was accidentally not offered for sale when the other townships were and was called "The Lost Township". People squatted in the township until the township was surveyed and then sold in 1843. William Ray established a blacksmith shop on the Santa Fe Trail in Jackson County in about 1848.
In 1860, residents of Jackson County petitioned the county for a road to connect southern Jackson County with Independence. The result was Raytown Road, which led north from High Grove Road, crossed the Little Blue River at the "rockford" and joined the Santa Fe trail at William Ray's blacksmith shop. Portions of the original Raytown Road are still used today. The settlement around the blacksmith shop was known first as "Ray's Town" and later as "Raytown". A historical marker at the corner of 63rd Street and Raytown Road shows the location of William Ray's shop.
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