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by AB-Wikibot on April 19th, 2007
The area where Raytown now lies was added to the state of Missouri at a cost of $800 by a treaty signed in 1826. Jackson County, MissouriJackson County, named after President Andrew Jackson, was formed in 1827. A large area of the county, Township 49, was accidentally not offered for sale when the other townships were, and so was called "The Lost Township". People moved into the township and squatsquatted until the township was surveyed and the land sold in 1843.
The http://www.cavespring.org/rice-tremonti_home.htm Rice-Tremonti Home, which still stands in Raytown today, was built on the Santa Fe Trail in 1844 by Archibald Rice and his family.
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 better road to connect southern Jackson County with Independence, MissouriIndependence in northern Jackson County. The result was 'Raytown Road', which led north from High Grove Road, crossed the Little Blue River at the "rockford" (now inundated by Longview Lake) and joined the Santa Fe trail at William Ray's blacksmith shop. Many portions of the original Raytown Road still are used today.
The settlement around the blacksmith shop was known first as "Ray's Town" and later as "Raytown".
There is now a historical marker in Raytown at the corner of 63rd Street and Raytown Road showing the location of William Ray's shop.
Source: http://raytownkc.com/history.html History of Raytown
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raytown%2C_Missouri
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